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The Auction (1778) [ People ]
… Combe, William. The Auction. A Town Eclogue. By the honourable Mr. ---: [i.e. William Combe] The third edition. London : printed for J. Bew, No. 28, Pater-Noster-Row, 1778. Full text from ECCO. … The Auction (1778) …
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Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Emma Newcombe, ‘Writing Whiteness: Antebellum Guidebooks and the Codification of the Landscape in Catskill Tourism and Print’, Early American Literature (vol. 54, n° 1, 2019), p. 189-216. This is part of a larger pattern of relegating the …
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Spas [ Health ]
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… the Gout [1720] (London: A. Strahan, 1753), p. 62. 15 . John Wood, A Description of Bath [1742] (Bath: Kingsmead Reprints, 1969), p. 259-268. 16 . George Cheyne, The English Malady: or a Treatise of Nervous Diseases of all Kinds … Lady in Bath, 1794-1807’, p. 101 (Shropshire Record Office, Shrewsbury: Corbett of Longnor Papers). Thomas Rowlandson’s prints The Comforts of Bath (1798) have provided a dark and humorous view of Bath’s social life that contrasts with …
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