'A valuable addition to scholarship on disability history, material culture, and the social history of medicine... She deftly engages with topics as diverse as the history of scientific instrument makers, the history of vision and the senses more generally, Victorian innovations in the marketing of medical devices, and changing expectations of children’s education. And reading her lucid prose is a delight. The book should become a mainstay of work on this topic for students and scholars of the history of medicine, the body, disability, and the senses.'
Meegan Kennedy, Journal of British Studies

Introducing Victorian spectacle wear
1 Early Victorian understandings of vision and spectacles, 1830–50
2 The ‘normal eye’ as seen through technology: a quest for medical control, 1850–1904
3 Challenging (ab)normalcy: expansion in manufacture, design, and access, 1851–1904
4 The limits of professionalism: medical practitioners, opticians and popular responses to sight loss, 1880–1904
5 Fashioning the eye and seeing, 1830–1904
Conclusion
Index