Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… Ceremonies, the ‘King of Bath,’ gradually diminished over the course of the century, in the post-Beau Nash era, when the authority of the spa monarch came to be challenged. Nash had been a self-appointed unpaid Master of Ceremonies, and after … sociability celebrated by the likes of Marcard and the reality of Pyrmont led Justus Möser to write to the physician and author in 1784, suggesting that Pyrmont might benefit from having a kind of master of ceremonies or ‘Bath King’ ( … Bath , 56, 63-64). 23 . Philip Thicknesse, The Memoirs and Anecdotes of Philip Thicknesse (London: Printed for the Author, 1788), p. 289-290. 24 . John Wood, An Essay towards a Description of Bath [1765] (Bath: Kingsmead Reprints, …
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