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100 1 $aHinde, Thomas,$d1926-2014.
245 10 $aTales from the Pump Room :$bnine hundred years of Bath, the place, its people, and its gossip /$cby Thomas Hinde.
260 $aLondon :$bV. Gollancz,$c1988.
300 $a252 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
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505 0 $apt. 1 : Tales of the Past : Prince Bladud ; Mediaeval Bath [medieval] ; Doctors of earlier times ; Early royal visitors ; The battle of Lansdowne Hil ; Pepys and his family visit 'the Bath' ; Queen Anne makes Bath fashionable -- pt. 2 : Tales of the Great Days -- 1. The founders : -- Captain Webster, King of Bath ; Beau Nash ; Fanny Murray and Juliana Papjoy ; Ralph Allen -- man of Bath ; The two John Woods ; General Wade, member for Bath -- 2. The Bath experience : -- The journey to Bath ; The daily routine ; Hanoverian princes and princesses ; The hosts ; Sally Lunns, Bath's breakfast buns ; Bath's chairs and chair-men ; Pulteney and the bridge ; The new Assembly Rooms -- 3. The Doctors and the waters : -- Dr. Radcliffe and the toad ; The Diseases of Bath ; The Vegetarian Dr Cheyne ; The two Dr. William Olivers ; An extraordinarily sleepy person at Timsbury ; Dr. Tobias Sollet and Mr. Archibald Cleland -- 4. Gaming and gamesters : -- Clarke kills Taylor ; The Gaming Acts ; The sad case of Fanny Braddock ; Poor Jenners -- 5. Discoveries : -- Minerva's head ; The Large Roman bath and the Great Roman bath.
505 0 $a6. Residents : -- Mary Chandler, poet of Bath ; Mr. Gill, pastry cook ; James Leake, bookseller -- William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester, and Gertrude Tucker -- Henry Fielding and his sister Sarah ; James Quin, actor ; Ansteys' The New Bath Guide ; Rector of Claverton -- Beau Nash's successors -- Collette and Derrick -- Philip Thicknesse, his brother Ralph, and his 3 wives -- Gainsborough at Bath -- Mrs. Macaulay, James Graham, and the electric bath -- Sarah Siddons, rage of the town -- Richard Sheridan and Eliza Linley -- William and Caroline Herschel -- Lady Miller and the Batheaston vase -- John Palmer and the mail coach -- 7. Visitors : -- Stephen Duck's tour -- Alexander Pope and Miss Blount -- Samuel Richardson and his doctor -- The Duke of Kingston and his bigamous duchess -- The 'great commoner' -- Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, and her chapel -- Dr Johnson visits Bath -- Fanny Burney, the young celebrity -- Mrs. Trale -- Mrs. Piozzi -- Rowlandson's Comforts of Bath [Rowlandson] -- pt. 3. Tales of Later Times.
505 0 $a1. Bath waters yesterday and today -- 2. New discoveries : -- Thomas Baldwin, Guildhall to bankruptcy ; James Thomas Irving's scrapbooks [Irving] ; Major Davis and the Roman lead -- 3. Visitors and residents : -- Strata Smith -- Jane Austen's Bath [Austen] -- A Regency coach journey -- Queen Victoria fails to return -- Beckford and his tower -- Waler Savage Landor -- Dickens and Mr Pickwick -- Lord and Lady Lytton -- Inventor of Pitman's shorthand [Pitman] -- A Bath waif -- George Saintsbury -- Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia -- pt. 4. The Second World War and After : -- Bath air raids ; Bath Preservation Trust ; Sack of Bath ; Georgian Museum at 1, Royal Crescent ; Yellow door in the Crescent ; the Pump Room today.
520 $a"No city in Britain has a history like Bath's. Others have exploited their mineral waters ... and many have been holiday resorts. But none has ever been the country's alternative capital as Bath was for almost a hundred years, a place to which a large part of society came annually and just about everyone who was anybody visited at least once : from writers and artists such as Samuel Pepys, William Beckford, Thomas Gainsborough, Henry Fielding and Fanny Burney to actors and playwrights like Mrs. Siddons and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. James II's Queen to a bath in order to become pregnant ; lesser bathers hoped to cure gout or pox. Eventually most were found at the Pump Room, the heart of Bath's social scene. There over glasses of the celebrated mineral water, gossip was exchanged and duels or elopements arranged. Thomas Hinde describes the most curious, amusing and scandalous personalities and events with made this such a unique community in the eighteenth century and which still makes Bath such a popular city today."--Back over.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-242) and index.
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