Bathing machine
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The bathing machine was a device, popular from the 18th century until the early 20th century, to allow people at beaches to change out of their usual clothes, change into swimwear, and wade in the oce
Women posing near a bathing machine in 1902
Horse-drawn bathing machines in Wyk auf Föhr, Germany, 1895
Sea bathing in mid Wales c. 1800. Several bathing machines can be seen.
Mermaids at Brighton swim behind their bathing machines in this engraving by William Heath, c. 1829.
Victorian morality
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Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of the middle class in 19th-century Britain, the Victorian era.
Bathing machine
…Beach hut Victorian morality Martha Gunn (1726–1815), a professional dipper (a strong female who would escort the female bather, in the cart, into the surf, help her into the water…
Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children as an idealized family
Holman Hunt's The Awakening Conscience (1853)