THE VICTORIAN AGE MILIEU
THE VICTORIAN AGE MILIEU

Summary/Abstract: The Victorian Age was one of the longest periods in the history of Great Britain and affected as well the countries that entered, at one moment or another, under its influence. The delineation of the Victorian Age ranged between 1830 and 1901 and covered, for its most part, the reign of Queen Victoria; it is largely accepted that Victorianism, in its broader meaning, included both the formal Regency which stretched between 1811 and 1820 (in 1810 King George III was deemed unfit to exert his prerogatives due to the fact that he manifested signs of a recurrent mental illness and his eldest son, George, Prince of Wales, ruled as Prince Regent), the Napoleonic wars (1803 – 1815, which comprised several wars between the French Empire of Napoleon and the coalitions led by Great Britain) as well as the interval that closely succeeded Queen Victoria’s reigning years – the Edwardian age and the period before World War I.

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