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By the 18th century, the healing springs that had encouraged the Romans to settle in Bath, England had dwindled to little more than an excuse. The spas provided the well- and nothing-to-do of with a focus for their promenades and balls and liaisons, but the only medicine was social. As Horace Walpole quipped, the rich "went there well, and returned home cured."
For the father of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Bath was almost a last resort. He left Ireland after a political riot touched off by one of his plays destroyed his theatre and his reputation. His tour of Europe had been, in the popular fashion, a flight from creditors. He had arrived at Bath in 1770 to pursue, for a third try, his dream of founding an academy for elocution ... FULL STORY »
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