Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… Society. The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England, ed. N. McKendrick, J. Brewer and J.H. Plumb (London: Europe Publications, 1982), p. 9-33. 23 . Visiting was an essential feature of Bath's social life: see Letters from Bath, … were sites of identity formation. 29 25 . Haydn wrote in his notebook that ‘Bath was one of the most beautiful cities in Europe’. See Howard Chandler Robbins Landon (ed.), Haydn in England, 1791-1795 (London: Thames & Hudson, 1976), p. 266. …
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