Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… the amazon, or the bar tender. 5 . See Annick Cossic, Bath au XVIIIe siècle: Les fastes d’une cité palladienne (Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2000), p. 21-34. 6 . The number of British spas kept increasing: see Phyllis Hembry, The English Spa (1560-1815): A Social History (London: The Althone Press, 1990): over 138 spas were identified. 7 . The practice became widespread in Bath following the publication of Dr … shown the role of letters in the circulation of spa gossip between friends: ‘Writing Letters from Georgian Spas: The Impressions of a Few English Ladies,’ in Annick Cossic and Patrick Galliou (eds.), Spas in Britain and in France in the …
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