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Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… 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 … of reappropriating one’s body and of accepting it: it was part of a shared experience, even if not all ailments could be publicly discussed, in particular, gynaecological disorders. 9 Nonetheless, talks in the Pump Room did not only revolve … The Althone Press, 1990): over 138 spas were identified. 7 . The practice became widespread in Bath following the publication of Dr William Oliver’s A Practical Dissertation on the Bath Waters (1704). 8 . See Annick Cossic-Péricarpin, …
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Beau Nash [ Fashion ]
… Allen, and tried to alleviate poverty and misery: ‘his generosity and charity in private life, was as great as that in publick, and indeed far more considerable than his little income would admit’ (Goldsmith 233). Yet he also associated … that kept him there. He discovered his penchant for management and his character was well suited to the profitable publicity Bath presented. In his new capacity as Master of Ceremonies, he set out to define the principles of spa … son of a Welsh gentleman, Nash had also inherited some of the features of the chivalric code of behaviour. He built the public image of a protector of damsels in distress and inexperienced youths. 8 This was an aspect of his general policy …
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Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… of Elkanah Watson, including journals of travels in Europe and America, fromto 1842, with his correspondence with public men and reminiscences and incidents of the revolution (New York: Dana and Company, Publishers, 1856), p. 350-351. … mainly a regional destination for visitors, and some of the nineteenth-century park infrastructure is preserved for public use. 14 . For a broad overview, see David Clay Large, The Grand Spas of Central Europe: a History of Intrigue, …
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Spas [ Health ]
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