Jane Austen and the Science of Seabathing

No person could be really well,’ claims Sanditon’s Mr Parker, ‘without spending at least six weeks by the sea every year’. Emma’s Mr Woodhouse disagrees: ‘the sea is very rarely of use to any body.  I am sure it almost killed me once’. This talk by Jane Darcy explores Jane Austen’s knowing use of the science behind the Georgian and Regency craze for sea bathing.

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