1837 thru 1910
The Victorian age began as an age of realism in art, music, and culture. This period of High Society in England was shaped by the 64-year reign of Queen Victoria. However, by the end of the century, Victorian culture was starting to give way to more disturbing developments of the Edwardian Era (1901-1910) where the emergence of abstract art (The eruption of the Primitive) into cultural styles and the arrival of modernism onto the artistic scene, were all a precursor to the abyss of World War l.