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… souvenir shops. In parallel with the sociability of visitors, workers also developed forms of sociable encounters and networks of support: bath women, for example, who accompanied the bathers and sold sweets and lozenges in the bath, were … within the looser-defined conventions of gendered sociability in spa towns, women could sometimes use their networks to push political agendas, including on a mission for their political husbands, as Elaine Chalus has argued for …
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