| | '''The Victorian era''' was the period in [[Great Britain]] under the long-lived [[Queen Victoria]] who reigned from 1837 to 1901. The term is also used to describe later nineteenth century western society in general with its strong moral standards and sharply defined gender roles. An age characterised by rapid scientific advance. | | '''The Victorian era''' was the period in [[Great Britain]] under the long-lived [[Queen Victoria]] who reigned from 1837 to 1901. The term is also used to describe later nineteenth century western society in general with its strong moral standards and sharply defined gender roles. An age characterised by rapid scientific advance. |
| − | Victorian painters include [[John William Waterhouse]], [[George Frederick Watts]], Lord Leighton, E. J. Poynter, [[Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema]], Edwin Weeks, Albert Moore and William Stephen Coleman. | + | Victorian painters include [[William Turner|Joseph Mallord William Turner]], [[John William Waterhouse]], [[George Frederick Watts]], Lord Leighton, E. J. Poynter, [[Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema]], [[James Whistler|James Abbott McNeill Whistler]], Edwin Weeks, Albert Moore and William Stephen Coleman. |
| | Victorian authors include names like: [[Jane Austen]], [[William Blake]], [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], [[Lewis Carroll]], [[Thomas Hardy]], [[John Keats]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[George Eliot]], [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], [[Alfred Lord Tennyson]], [[H. G. Wells]], [[Oscar Wilde]], and [[William Wordsworth]]. [http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/authors#sthash.Vxz4vS8N.dpuf] | | Victorian authors include names like: [[Jane Austen]], [[William Blake]], [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], [[Lewis Carroll]], [[Thomas Hardy]], [[John Keats]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[George Eliot]], [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], [[Alfred Lord Tennyson]], [[H. G. Wells]], [[Oscar Wilde]], and [[William Wordsworth]]. [http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/authors#sthash.Vxz4vS8N.dpuf] |