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The Auction (1778) [ People ]
… At morning's dawn dispell'd her tort'ring fears, And for a few short hours dried up her tears. Now gaudy Fancy, with her painted Train Of antic Visions, sported o'er her brain, And scatter'd airy pleasures as she pass'd; Alas! those … door her golden slumbers broke. Starting, in wild disorder up she rose: The quick but sad remembrance of her woes, With recollected torture, eager prest Its thorny sorrows on her tender breast. In silent haste the toilette is prepar'd; But, ah! Vainetta's eyes no longer dar'd, With watchful look and lengthen'd zeal, to trace The doubtful beauty of her bloated face, Now hideous grown with anxious, …
Women | Beauty | Leisure
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Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… broken, allowing for a social scene in which to see and be seen was key, seeking out relationships and connections with one’s peers or even ‘social betters’ if one might dare. This was a fundamental element of spa sociability in nearly all spas deserving of the name in the long eighteenth century and took place on a stage set with strikingly similar elements: a pump room where the salubrious mineral waters might be taken and bathing facilities, … periphery of British North America in what would by the end of the century be the United States. The eighteenth century witnessed a rash of ‘discovery’ of mineral springs by settlers in the young colonies of British North America and in …
Colonies | Cosmopolitanism | Health | Leisure | North America | Spa | Travel
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Spas [ Health ]
Assemblies | Fiction | Health | Leisure | Medicine | North America | Spa
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