Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… of Nervous Diseases of all Kinds (London: G. Strahan, 1733), p. 181. 17 . Amanda E. Herbert, ‘Gender and the Spa: Space, Sociability and Self at British Health Spas, 1640-1714’, Journal of Social History, (vol. 43, n° 2, Winter 2009), … entertainments. 28 This interpretation of the Bath sociable experience is corroborated by Miles Ogborn’s contention in Spaces of Modernity that some eighteenth-century places were sites of identity formation. 29 25 . Haydn wrote in his … to Bath,’ in Stephen Powys Marks (ed.), Bath History (Bath: Millstream Books, 2002), vol. IX, p. 60. 29 . Miles Ogborn, Spaces of Modernity: London’s Geographies 1680-1780 (New York, London: The Guildford Press, 1998) p. 42. The extension to …
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