Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… Bath , 102) regardless of their rank, expected immediate emancipation from their customary routine and a degree of refinement of their manners. Yet they were immediately put under the firm guidance of the Master of Ceremonies and had to … attempts at spontaneity. The new type of sociability that they experienced in the spa, mixed-sex sociability, imposed refinement and theatricality in the Parades, the Assembly Rooms, the Pleasure Gardens, the coffee-houses, put a new …
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