Though she relates some amusing incidents- spotting the adulteress Julia Twistleton, the drunken party running around the almost deserted Upper Rooms etc -do you get the impression, as do I ,that JA is really not that happy in Bath?

I think she is frustrated with Mary's insensitive letter to Mrs Austen about the sale of their goods at Steventon. She also seems to hate the evening parteis she is subject to, in the small crowd of a spa at the end of its season,and the somewhat elderly contingent of friends of the Leigh-Perrots:

Another stupid party last nigth ; perhaps if they were larger they might be less intolerable ?....

I cannot anyhow continue to find people agreeable....

I respect Mrs Chamberlayne for doing her hair well, but cannot feel a more tender sentiment....

All these phrases soundas if they are the product of a rather brittle wit resulting from unhappiness to me.