Photo Credits: By H. T. Alken - 1831 caricature by H. T. Alken scanned by H. Churchyard from Dorothy George's Hogarth to Cruikshank, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1459272
The industrial revolution started in Britain around the 1760s. During this time, factories, mills, inventions, and scientific breakthroughs changed how people lived and worked. Britain was quickly moving into a world that no one had ever known before, which was both exciting and simultaneously very difficult for the people who lived through it. I think the rapid changes that came from the Industrial Revolution made Romantic era writers cling to nature and emotion even more as a way to stay rooted in themselves.
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1760 to 1840
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