Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Georgian era 1714-1830 (1837) - Coggle Diagram
Georgian era 1714-1830 (1837)
Reigns :crown:
House of Hanover
George I (r. 1714-1727)
Didn't speak English
Disliked by people
George II (1727-1760)
George III (1760-1820)
George IV (1820-1830)
Prince Regent (1811-1820)
:books:
Literature
"Augustan literature" 1700-1740 (Latin literature influences)
Writers
Henry Fielding
Mary Shelley
Jane Austen
Poets
Vivid language and elevating ideas
Romantic poets
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lord Byron
Architecture :house:
Influences
"Vitruvius Britannicus" by Colen Campbell
Palladianism
Classical architecture
Famous architects
John Nash
Robert Adam
James Wyatt
Robert Walpole
First prime minister
Tried to avoid war
Achieve and maintain country's wealth
Fashion :womans_clothes:
More natural forms in the 1800s
Chemise gown
Harmful cosmetics and fabrics
Social changes :silhouettes:
Urbanisation
Intensifying class divisions
Colonies
People moving to colonies
USA becomes independent
Enlightenment
Scottish
Good education
Importance of human reason
British
Liberalism
The coffee-house culture
