Editing Bathing machine (section)

==In fiction==
* In "[[The Hunting of the Snark]]" a Snark's fondness for bathing machines is listed as the fourth "unmistakable mark" that Snark hunters should consider.
* In ''[[Iolanthe]]'', the Lord Chancellor's "Nightmare Song" describes a passenger ship as not much larger than a bathing machine.
* The use of the bathing machine and segregated swimming is depicted in the 2019 [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] series [[Sanditon (TV series)|''Sanditon'']], based on the 1817 unfinished novel of the same name by [[Jane Austen]].
* In ''[[Persuasion (novel)|Persuasion]]'' by Jane Austen, the principal street in the town of Lyme is said to be "animated with bathing machines" during the season.
* In "Of Human Bondage", [[Somerset Maugham]] describes the main character, Philip, swimming in the ocean, after which, "he crawled back, dripping and cold, into his bathing-machine".
* Chapter 22 of ''[[Vanity Fair (novel)|Vanity Fair]]'' (1847–48) by [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] records that, following Amelia Sedley and George Osborne's wedding: "Some ten days after the above ceremony, three young men of our acquaintance were enjoying that beautiful prospect of bow windows on the one side and blue sea on the other, which Brighton affords to the traveller. Sometimes it is towards the ocean—smiling with countless dimples, speckled with white sails, with a hundred bathing-machines kissing the skirt of his blue garment—that the Londoner looks enraptured (...)"
* In ''[[Devil in Spring]]'' by [[Lisa Kleypas]], "Serapfina led her to a bathing-machine that had been left near a dune. It was a small enclosed room set on high wheels, with a set of steps leading up to the door".
* The bathing machine is referred to in ''[[The Woman in White (novel)|The Woman in White]]'' by [[Wilkie Collins]].
* The 2020 film, ''[[Ammonite (film)|Ammonite]]'', depicts [[Charlotte Murchison]] using a bathing machine.
* Chapter 24 in ''[[Agnes Grey]]'' by Anne Brontë describes the morning preparations on a beach in a bathing town, and mentions bathing machines.
* Alice in Lewis Caroll's [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]] naively concludes that bathing machines are to be found 'wherever you go to on the English coast'.