"The unmeaning luxuries of Bath": urban pleasures in Jane Austen's world.(AGM 2004: Los Angeles)

From: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Byrne, Paula | Copyright information 
 
   But who is that bombazine lady so gay, 
   So profuse of her beauties in sable array? 
   How she rests on her heel, how she turns out her toe, 
   How she pulls down her stays, with her head up to show 
   Her lily-white bosom that rivals the snow!

("A description of the Ball, with an episode on Beau Nash," The New Bath Guide, or Memoirs of the B-N-R-D Family in a series of Poetical Epistles, 1797?)

No place in England, in a full season, affords so brilli...

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