What period came before and after the Victorian Era?

Question

What period came before and after the Victorian Era?

Answer 1

Georgian and Edwardian

Answer 2

Era After Victorian

Answer 3

The Victorian Era was followed by the Edwardian Era, 1901-10, although for many historians it is convenient to extend this to 1914 rather than to invent a new name for it.

The Georgian Era began in 1714, and for some purposes it is regarded as continuing right up to Victoria's accession in 1837, as though King William IV (1830-37) was a George, too. However, Wikipedia notes that:

The "Regency" can be considered to be a transitional period between "Georgian" and "Victorian".

Historically the Regency actually began in 1811, and ended in 1820 when the Prince Regent became George IV, but styles of art, fashion etc. had begun to change after the French Revolution (early 1790's), and any time between about 1805 and 1837 can be referred to as "early Regency" or "late Regency" for artistic reasons, rather than as "late Georgian".

Answer 4

Just before was the Georgian era, after Victoria's father King George. And just after the Edwardian period, after King Edward, Victoria's son. The Edwardian period was only about 10 years but was very progressive.

Answer 5

Period before...Napoleonic Era
Period after...Edwardian Era

Answer 6

the Victorian era was preceded by the Regency era and succeeded by the Edwardian period.

Answer 7

The era was preceded by the Regency era and succeeded by the Edwardian period.

Answer 8

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Every society has classes and class distinction. The relationship, and the degree of possible mobility, between classes does of course vary from place to place and time to time. The Victorian period in England (and to a certain extent in the rest of the United Kingdom) was, as is well-known, one where it was easier than it had ever been before for someone to slide from one class to another, both upwards and downwards. The huge development of science and of engineering technology in the period of course helped. It was of course extremely rare for an (originally illiterate) Irish immigrant working as a navvy on the railways to advance himself to become,ultimately, a contracting engineer and exceedingly rich. It did sometimes happen, however, and more than once. It was possible for a Polish immigrant who did not even speak the language to sign on an English merchant ship as AB, and rise to be a well-paid captain; thence to become universally recognised as a literary genius. The wool-trade in Bradford produced more than one millionaire (the history of the Whittingham family is a case in point) who started his working life in a wool-sorting shed. Downward mobility was even easier and so more common. Meritocracy and mobility are, of course, what produce social insecurity and hence acute awareness of class distinctions (snobbiness). To go no higher in the social scale, look at the relationship between the respectable working-class and that immediately beneath it. It became important for the slightly higher class to emphasise their standing by genteel manners, lace curtains and a degree of formality. Similarly, the old upper class, often no richer or even poorer than the nouveaux-riches, adopted their own version of lace curtains and high tea. Snobbery is often defensive. Contrast this with class relations in the 18thC or the Regency. To a far greater extent, in the earlier period people had their place and knew it. It was vanishingly rare for people to move more than one step on the ladder in a lifetime. This led to a degree of relaxed understanding between classes unthinkable in the Victorian period. Some examples: ...Boswell records a quarrel between a porter and a gentleman being settled on level terms with their fists: the porter, of a lower class, could not of course use a sword in a duel, so the gentleman had no hesitation in setting his status aside for the moment. His class position could not be threatened. ...Arthur Young and Archibald Alison, both travellers in France during the pre- and post-revolutionary period when class relations were rapidly changing, both independently record the ceremonious (we might say 'Victorian') manners of the French working-class, and the insecurity which occasioned them. An English blacksmith, Alison says, is secure in his self-esteem as a blacksmith doing a useful job; he feels no need to ape higher-class manners. The French one is a victim of his own snobbery. With the coming of a more fluid social order, this acute awareness of minute differences and the resultant snobbery was to infect Britain as well.

Answer 9

I forget what it was called before Victorian times, but if you read a Jane Austen novel, you'll get an idea. I know that it was very different.

Answer 10

dark ages, industrial revolution.