Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… by the excesses of the leisure industry ( Klein, 'Politeness and the Interpretation', 879) . As Katherine Plymley stated in her diary on 27 October 1794: ‘The great business of this place is pleasure, life, I think, is seen through a …
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