Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… the fancy [were] more conducive to health than those of the understanding.’ 3 In their periodical, read by both men and women in places belonging to the public sphere and in those that were part of the private one, the role of women in the creation of a new model of sociability was acknowledged. 4 Bath’s development and evolution from a centre of … of an aristocratic code of conduct where duelling was approved and the wearing of boots for gentlemen and of aprons for women on social occasions accepted. They replaced it with a new code of conduct including the ‘visit of ceremony,’ which …
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