Not just suitors, balls, and proposals: the late eighteenth-century Bath marriage mart reassessed

Bynoth, R ORCID: 0000-0002-3349-7709 (2025) 'Not just suitors, balls, and proposals: the late eighteenth-century Bath marriage mart reassessed.' In: Burlock, H, Eagles, R and LeBoff, T, eds. Bath and beyond: the social and cultural world of the Georgian assembly room. Routledge, New York, NY, pp. 78-95. ISBN 9781032494463

Abstract

As Catherine Morland in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey said, ‘Oh, who could ever be tired of Bath?’ As Catherine herself found out, Bath appeared to be all balls, promenading and socialising, often to find a marriage partner. Though historians have researched what happens in Bath during the season, there is less work on how people, especially young women, wrote of their experiences, often relying on Northanger Abbey as the central source for information. Consequently, very little is known about how Bath’s marriage mart was experienced by young women at the end of the eighteenth century. Dr Rachel Bynoth's new chapter in the edited collection Bath and Beyond uncovers other experiences of Bath's infamous marriage market for late eighteenth-century women.

Item Type:	Book Chapter or Section
Divisions:	Bath School of Design
Date Deposited:	14 Mar 2025 12:40
Last Modified:	28 Apr 2025 11:10
URI / Page ID:	https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/16954

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