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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