Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… and had to comply with a set of eleven rules that aimed at the harmonious cohabitation of the sexes and social classes. The clock-like organization of leisure together with the treatment prescribed by their Bath doctors firmly … with Bath, where she returned again and again, attracted and repulsed by the multiple encounters, across gender and class, that she could have there. Interestingly, she described ‘[her] house at Bath [as] for many winters constantly open to as many as resided there.’ 20 She subverted the class-oriented, gender-biased model of spa sociability that had prevailed in Bath until the middle of the century to …
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