[PDF] Six Weeks In Fauquier eBook

Author : A. Visiter
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Page : 82 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781332282067

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Excerpt from Six Weeks in Fauquier: Being the Substance of a Series of Familiar Letters, Illustrating the Scenery, Localities, Medicinal Virtues, and General Characteristics of the White Sulphur Spings, at Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia Among the numerous watering places now open to the public in different sections of the country, none probably, are so much esteemed and so generally visited, for health and pleasure, as those of Virginia. Saratoga Springs, from the very facility, and comparatively small expense, at which they can be visited, are no longer the same fashionable summer resorts they were wont to be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Charlene M. Boyer Lewis
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0813920795

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Each summer between 1790 and 1860, hundreds and eventually thousands of southern men and women left the diseases and boredom of their plantation homes and journeyed to the healthful and entertaining Virginia Springs. While some came in search of a cure, most traveled over the mountains to enjoy the fashionable society and participate in an array of social activities. At the springs, visitors, as well as their slaves, interacted with one another and engaged in behavior quite different from the picture presented by most historians. In the leisurely and pleasure-filled environment of the springs, plantation society's hierarchies became at once more relaxed and more contested; its rituals and rules sometimes changed and reformed; and its gender divisions often softened and blurred. In Ladies and Gentlemen on Display, Charlene Boyer Lewis argues that the Virginia Springs provided a theater of sorts, where contests for power between men and women, fashionables and evangelicals, blacks and whites, old and young, and even northerners and southerners played out -- away from the traditional roles of the plantation. In their pursuit of health and pleasure, white southerners created a truly regional community at the springs. At this edge of the South, elite southern society shaped itself, defining what it meant to be a "Southerner" and redefining social roles and relations.