British Journal of Ophthalmology only

rarely publishes historical review articles. Thus, we appreciate the unusual, recent historical publication in the journal, which presents the negative results of the study concerning the eye disorders of Jane Austen.1 The article demonstrates that she only suffered a mild ocular surface dis-order, probably conjunctivitis, which did not significantly impact on her visual per-formance for writing. The author nicely shows that she did not spare much atten-tion to the eye disorders in her writings. We would like to point out that there are numerous examples of blind or severely visually impaired famous writers