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The Georgian Seaside: The English resorts before the railway age (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781530524921)
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xLong before the Victorians the Georgian elite made the English seaside their playground
Discover the invention of the English seaside holiday in the days when royalty was ruthlessly dunked beneath the waves, when lodging houses catered for dukes and where resort visitors ranged from dying consumptives to marriageable misses to scandalous rakes - and the Prince Regent at his most outrageous. From the origins of sea bathing in the 16th century to the pinnacle of sophisticated Assembly Rooms, hotels and bathing establishments, this book charts the rise of the English seaside resorts before the arrival of the railways in the 1840s heralded the arrival of mass tourism and changed the way the English took their holidays for ever.Long before the Victorians every English county with a coastline had its resort with piers, sandcastles on the beach, donkey rides, sea bathing, souvenirs and the seaside landlady - this is the story of how, and why, they grew.
Author: Louise Allen
ISBN-10: 153052492X
ISBN-13: 9781530524921
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/17/2016
Pages: 126
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d
Discover the invention of the English seaside holiday in the days when royalty was ruthlessly dunked beneath the waves, when lodging houses catered for dukes and where resort visitors ranged from dying consumptives to marriageable misses to scandalous rakes - and the Prince Regent at his most outrageous. From the origins of sea bathing in the 16th century to the pinnacle of sophisticated Assembly Rooms, hotels and bathing establishments, this book charts the rise of the English seaside resorts before the arrival of the railways in the 1840s heralded the arrival of mass tourism and changed the way the English took their holidays for ever.Long before the Victorians every English county with a coastline had its resort with piers, sandcastles on the beach, donkey rides, sea bathing, souvenirs and the seaside landlady - this is the story of how, and why, they grew.
Author: Louise Allen
ISBN-10: 153052492X
ISBN-13: 9781530524921
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/17/2016
Pages: 126
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d
By Louise Allen
xWith an obsession for the Georgians Louise Allen has written Walking Jane Austen's London, Stagecoach Travel, Walks Through Regency London, Following the Great North Road and To the Field of Waterloo. She is the award winning author of over fifty historical romances and lives on the North Norfolk coast of England close to the Georgian seaside resort of Cromer.
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