Gentle readers: I am on vacation at the shore. The hot weather has cooled and the crowded beaches are empty, except for a few bathers and the shore birds. Yet, somehow my Internet connection is spotty and my ability to add images is nil. So, here is a link to an article I wrote for […]
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Sea Dippers in Brighton
Posted in 19th Century England, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Customs, Regency Life, Regency World, Sea bathing during the Regency era on September 17, 2011| 7 Comments »
Martha Gunn, Brighton’s Queen of the Dippers
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Customs, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, Sea bathing during the Regency era, tagged Brighton dipper, Martha Gunn, Regency Brighton on August 12, 2009| 13 Comments »
In a scene in 1998’s Vanity Fair with Natasha Little as Becky Sharp, she visits Brighton with her husband and friends. The film, set during the Regency era, depicted a scene in which one of the party is taken from a bathing machine and dipped into the cold waters by a large woman. The bather […]
A Day in Catherine Morland’s Bath
Posted in Jane Austen's World on January 4, 2021| 23 Comments »
This article is by the teacher and students of “Advanced Topics: Love Stories” at Stanford Online High School. It is part of a class-wide project to explore the city that so dazzled Catherine Morland, but about which Austen herself had mixed feelings.
At the Seaside in Regency England: A Poem from “News from Worthing,” 1807
Posted in Jane Austen Films, Jane Austen's World, PBS Movie Adaptation, Sanditon, Sea bathing during the Regency era, tagged #PBS Sanditon, Bathing machines, Circulating libraries, Robert Bloomfield, Sea dippers, Worthing on January 1, 2020| 4 Comments »
Inquiring readers, Happy New Year! Are U.S. Austen fans ready for the countdown to Sanditon on PBS? Only 11 days remain until this eight-episode mini-series based on Jane Austen’s final novel fragment airs on Sunday nights. You can also stream each episode. The subscription rate for the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel is $5.99/month with […]
The Bathing Dress: Fashion in the Georgian Era
Posted in 19th Century England, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency World, tagged Bathing dress, Regency Fashion, Regency sea bathing on April 27, 2013| 8 Comments »
During the 18th century women wore a long flannel shift while bathing, sometimes with lead weights sewn into the hem to keep the skirts from floating up.
Sanditon and the Development of New Settlements
Posted in 19th Century England, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Sea bathing during the Regency era, tagged Bedzed, Brighton, Charlotte Heywood, Regency seaside resorts, Sanditon, Scarborough, Sustainable energy on May 4, 2011| 6 Comments »
Contributed by Tony Grant, all rights reserved. Images by Tony Grant. Towards the end of her life Jane Austen was writing a new sort of novel, Sanditon. It appears to have been, in it’s far from completed form, an analysis of change going on in the world of the 18th century.The main female character in […]
Sanditon: Jane Austen by the Seaside
Posted in Fashions, Holiday, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Regency Customs, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency Travel, Regency World, tagged Poetical Sketches of Scarborough, Regency sea bathing, Regency seaside fashions, Sanditon on March 20, 2010| 3 Comments »
I’m a little late for the party, but a full day still remains until Laurel Ann at Austenprose finishes her in-depth tour of Sanditon, Jane Austen’s last, unfinished novel. Click on this page to catch up on all the links and comments and guest posts. Read more about the seaside and seaside fashions on this […]
Seaside Fashion, Regency Style
Posted in Fashions, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, Sea bathing during the Regency era, tagged Bathing machines, Poetical Sketches of Scarborough, Regency seaside fashions, Vanity Fair 1998 on August 14, 2009| 9 Comments »
Inquiring reader, in honor of this week’s tepid heat wave in Richmond, I continue my coverage of all things seaside during the Regency era. To our moderns eyes, Regency fashions by the seashore covered as much of the body as ordinary clothes, and were as complicated as regular fashions. Let’s take a closer look. I […]
Benjamin Beale’s Invention for Bathing Machines
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency Travel, Regency World, Sea bathing during the Regency era, tagged Bathing machines, Beale's bathing machine, Regency bathing machines on August 10, 2009| 15 Comments »
Some historians attibute the invention of the bathing machine to Benjamin Beale, a Quaker and a glove and breeches maker who lived in Margate, a coastal seaside resort in England, during the 18th century. This was not so. Beale’s actual contribution in 1750 was the invention of an awning attached to the rear of the bathing […]