The Dark History of Bath’s ‘Asylum for Teaching Young Females Household Work’ 👇🏼 Behind Bath’s elegant Georgian façade once stood an institution with a gentle name and a brutal purpose. Founded in the early nineteenth century, it claimed to rescue poor girls by teaching them household skills. In reality, it confined them to unpaid labour, strict prayer, and silence. Most were orphans or young women cast out for poverty or perceived sin. Inside, they washed, scrubbed, and sewed for hours each d