Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… notions of fashion or respectability, was also the wish to be in the orbit of the considerable number of political, intellectual and artistic luminaries who were known to frequent the more fashionable spas such as Pyrmont in the … any middle-class visitor of ever directly encountering such lofty persons. This was a different situation in the case of intellectual and artistic celebrities who frequented Pyrmont and other fashionable spas. The second half of the eighteenth century saw visits by Enlightenment intellectuals such as Moses Mendelsohn and Johann Gottfried Herder, who visited a number of times to seek relief from …
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