Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… celebrated the pleasures enjoyed by a man of a ‘polite imagination’ and asserted that ‘the pleasures of the fancy [were] more conducive to health than those of the understanding.’ 3 In their periodical, read by both men and women in places … Gordon Riots of 1785 (Cossic, Bath, 160), and the new trend towards mass mobilization, as demonstrated by the actions of Hannah More and William Wilberforce . Hannah More, for her part, used her Bath connections for philanthropic and political ends – in particular in her fight …
Codes | Fashion | Health | Leisure | Politeness | Ritual | Spa
Encyclopedia