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… explains about the bluestockings. 12 All these gendered interactions are known to us through literature, especially the novels of Jane Austen and Frances Burney ( Evelina ), in which young women accompany older men or women to a spa town (usually Bath or Bristol Hotwells). These novels insist on the sociability of larger spa towns as a marriage market. In spa comedies, a subgenre of the comedy of … Sheridan and Colman, the marriage market is a pretence for facilitating all forms of fortune-hunting or adultery. Beyond novels and comedies, resort miscellanies such as Tunbrigialia or The Scarborough Miscellany for the year 1734 were …
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