Clean by Smith Virginia;

Author:Smith, Virginia;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

Hygiene and Hardiness

Travellers to eighteenth-century England constantly pointed out—with a certain wonderment—how excessively fond of strenuous physical exercise the English were. The romantic English parkscape that developed in the first half of the century had long informal paths that rambled around the estate towards newly built plunge pools, cricket pitches, stables, and carriage rides, fishing lakes, archery butts, boatsheds, and carefully placed picnic pavilions. The aristocracy spent their time royally feasting and sporting and then recovering from it: ‘The Pretty Duchess of Devonshire… has hysteric fits in the morning and dances in the evening; she bathes, rides, and dances for ten days, and lies in bed the next ten.’28 What foreigners were seeing, in part, were the older forms of pleasure reinforced and given cachet by Locke’s hygienic regimen.

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