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The English spa, 1560-1815 : a social history
- Title
- The English spa, 1560-1815 : a social history / Phyllis Hembry.
- Author
- Hembry, Phyllis M. (Phyllis May)
- Publication
- London : Athlone Press ; Rutherford [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 401 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Continued by: British spas from 1815 to the present.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 368-379) and indexes.
- Contents
- The Elizabethan transformation -- Bath and Buxton : the new vogue for going to the baths -- Stuart patronage and the drinking spas -- Bath and the Civil War -- Restoration development : the provincial spas -- Tunbridge Wells Rivals Bath : late Stuart changes -- Metropolitan spas -- Bath : the new towns -- Bath : the regulated society and the leisure industry -- Cold-bathing at the minor spas -- Cheltanham : the village spa -- The challenge of Cheltenham -- The innkeepers' rule : Harrogate and Scarborough -- The innkeepers' spas of Derbyshire : Buxton and Matlock -- Georgian spas of the South : Tunbridge Wells, Epsom and Southhampton -- The Severn spas : the Bristol Hotwells and Malvern -- Wartime Cheltenham : problems of expansion -- Bath : the price of primacy -- Leamington Priors and wartime minor spas.
- ISBN
- 0485113740
- 9780485113747
- 0838633919
- 9780838633915
- LCCN
- 89045403
- OCLC
- ocm20056112
- 20056112
- SCSB-14115514
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library