HeyJaredRegency History
We love researching and sharing about the late Georgian and Regency era in Britain. By Andrew & Rachel Knowles. We're based in Weymouth, the seaside town often visited by George III.
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Eye-Wear in the Era of Jane Austen (opens the original)
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It’s not unusual to see characters wearing spectacles in on-screen versions of Regency romances. Adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels, and related stories, such as The Other Bennet Sister (BBC, 2026) use glasses to indicate both the age and intellectual status of key characters.As far as we can tell, in the Regency era it was relatively unusual to see people wearing glasses in public.It wasn’t that people didn’t need help with their vision. Then, as now, eyesight usually deteriorated with age. No
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