Victorian Turkish Baths Picture of the Month for September 2004
Front cover of a paperback edition of
The Mystery of a Turkish bath by ‘Rita’
Rita's The Mystery of a Turkish bath was published in London, Toronto, and New York in 1888.
Rita, the pseudonym of Eliza Margaret J Humphreys, was a prolific writer of light fiction. The mystery is set in a Hampshire Hotel Spa which is not living up to its financial promise.
This item is from the collection of the Victorian Turkish Baths Project
See also: more about Rita's book
here
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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