Georgian era
Four kings' reigns
The Georgian era spans the reigns of the four King Georges of Britain, roughly 1714 to 1830.
The term usually evokes the distinctive architecture, furniture, and decorative arts of the period—symmetrical facades, sash windows, elegant proportions: a Georgian townhouse in Bath.
The era overlaps with the Regency period at its end.
Regency-era English novelist
- Pride and PrejudiceRegency courtship novel
- EmmaName suggesting wholeness
- Mansfield ParkAusten's third published novel
- Northanger AbbeySatirical novel mocking Gothic tropes
Romantic poetry · Wordsworth · Coleridge · Byron · Shelley · Keats · epistolary · satirical
Renaissance-rooted architectural style
- townhouseAttached multi-floor urban residence
- terracePaved outdoor extension
- sash windowsVertically sliding window frames
- fanlightSemicircular window over doorway
pediment · portico · stucco · balustrade · cornice · symmetry · proportion · crescents
Plain-woven cotton cloth
- spencerShort fitted outerwear
- pelisseFur-lined outer wrap
- cravatNeck scarf, tucked in
- top hatTall formal headwear
breeches · waistcoat · bonnet · reticule · gloves · panniers · powdered wig · buckled shoes
British colonial trading corporation
- plantationsLarge-scale farming operations
- Atlantic slave tradeForced transatlantic human cargo enterprise
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
- coloniesTerritories under foreign control
mercantilism · sugar trade · triangular trade · British Raj · exploration · Captain Cook · navigation · settlers
Highborn but not noble
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- entailmentLogical necessity from premises
- primogenitureEldest inherits all
- dowryMarital property transfer
matchmaking · coming out · season · ton · assembly · calling cards · chaperone · propriety
Transition to factory-based economy
- urbanizationPopulation shift toward cities
- enclosureConfined, bordered space
- LudditesAnti-technology movement members
- factory systemCentralized mechanized production method
workhouses · poor laws · child labor · abolition · Wilberforce · philanthropy · dissent · radical politics
Jane Austen
Regency-era English novelist
- Pride and PrejudiceRegency courtship novel
- EmmaName suggesting wholeness
- Mansfield ParkAusten's third published novel
Northanger Abbey · Romantic poetry · Wordsworth · Coleridge · Byron · Shelley · Keats · epistolary · satirical · morality tale
Palladian
Renaissance-rooted architectural style
- townhouseAttached multi-floor urban residence
- terracePaved outdoor extension
- sash windowsVertically sliding window frames
fanlight · pediment · portico · stucco · balustrade · cornice · symmetry · proportion · crescents · squares
muslin
Plain-woven cotton cloth
top hat · breeches · waistcoat · bonnet · reticule · gloves · panniers · powdered wig · buckled shoes · tailcoat
East India Company
British colonial trading corporation
- plantationsLarge-scale farming operations
- Atlantic slave tradeForced transatlantic human cargo enterprise
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
colonies · mercantilism · sugar trade · triangular trade · British Raj · exploration · Captain Cook · navigation · settlers · missionaries
gentry
Highborn but not noble
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- entailmentLogical necessity from premises
- primogenitureEldest inherits all
dowry · matchmaking · coming out · season · ton · assembly · calling cards · chaperone · propriety · manners
industrialization
Transition to factory-based economy
- urbanizationPopulation shift toward cities
- enclosureConfined, bordered space
- LudditesAnti-technology movement members
factory system · workhouses · poor laws · child labor · abolition · Wilberforce · philanthropy · dissent · radical politics · sanitation
- erasera, epoch, age, bronze age, period
- historical erasStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance
- period dramaperiod costumes, costume drama, Victorian era, period piece, Edwardian era
- 1810s-1820sNapoleonic Wars, Waterloo, Congress of Vienna, Regency, Monroe Doctrine
- British ErasVictorian era, Victorian age, Tudor era, Tudor period, Elizabethan era
- English historyNorman Conquest, Domesday Book, Magna Carta, King Alfred, Henry VIII
Georgian eramodern era
Current historical period
digital age · twenty-first century · information age · prehistoric era · ancient times
Georgian eramodernism
Favoring contemporary approaches
minimalism · Brutalism · contemporary design · industrial aesthetic · Victorian era
Georgian eraElizabethan era
Late sixteenth-century England
Tudor period · Medieval period · Victorian era · Edwardian era · modern era