Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… Royal Crescent’, 1780, WikiCommons. Image Thomas Rowlandson, 'Comforts of Bath: The Pump Room', Yale Center for British Art, B1975.3.53, 1798. Résumé The ancient city of Bath renowned for its waters ever since the Roman era played a decisive … 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 sociability was acknowledged. 4 Bath’s … a centre of mixed sex sociability, ranking just behind London, as a beacon of new social interaction. A city which started as a market town 5 evolved into a fashionable spa whose model of sociability was not simply imitative of the …
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