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Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… a fundamental part of spa visits, and those in central Europe with renowned springs, in particular Pyrmont, owed their reputations to the belief in the quality of their waters. 9 Drinking thermal mineral water for its purported medicinal … 1707-1787 (London: Vintage, 1996), p. 209-251. From an engine of celebrity, Bath itself became an object of fame, whose reputation extended beyond its borders, as it exported its model of spa sociability to other watering places: for …
Celebrity | Fame | Health | Rules | Spa
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… Jeremy Collier could write, ‘whether the Trade of an Actor be a lawful Trade or not, I’m sure ‘tis not a Trade of good Reputation,’ 18 by the late 1700s, actors like Garrick and Siddons were able to mobilize respectable domestic ideology … contact with genteel society within Drury Lane Theatre and increased media representation of the theatre transmuted the reputations of individual actors and the acting profession from questionable to admirable. 18 . Jeremy Collier, A …
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