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Jane Austen's Bubbly Bath

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19990912
Author:Jessica Portner

In her novels, when Jane Austen satirized the well-heeled denizens of fashionable towns squawking about the latest scandal or gossiping about some unfortunate social pairing, the English city of Bath was usually her inspiration. When the budding author's family moved there from the Hampshire countryside in 1801, Bath--in southwest England, about a two-hour drive from London--was the epicenter of English society. The wealthy classes, just like their yuppie descendants today, flocked to the resort and natural mineral springs where the Romans erected their bathhouses 2,000 years ago. They came ...

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