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Britain under Queen Victoria reigns supreme, steaming into the modern age with railroads,
factories, electricity, telephones, and the first Underground. Meanwhile, Romantic poets
long for the innocence of nature, Charles Dickens questions the social order, and Rudyard
Kipling criticizes the colonial system.
Timeline
Early 1800s
A generation of Romantic poets (John Keats, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron,
and William Wordsworth) return to nature and ponder mortality before
dying young. Meanwhile, Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters write ro-
mantic tales about the landed gentry.
1800s-1850s
J. M. W. Turner immerses himself in nature and paints moody landscapes.
