Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… For the Consideration of Invalids: Especially Those Who Resort to Bath (1786), formally underlined the link between fashion and illness. Yet the ‘openness’ of these theories is to be set against the existence of secret medical networks 7 … the experience in Pyrmont came to be one less focused on curing, but to an equal or greater extent on the sociable and fashionable. Medical guidebooks, while hardly objective, reflected what appeared important to the visiting public. Most … spa sociability altogether and nostalgically look on the traditional ideal of retirement which was renewed with the fashioning of the romantic self. Hannah More provides a striking example of a woman who had a love-hate relationship with …
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