Romanticism first started to take form due to the French and Industrial Revolutions. The French Revolution called into question the authority of world order and emphasized freedom of all men. The Industrial Revolution though, caused the Romantics to start using nature and it's beauty among the growing cities and the formation of the middle class, thus allowing people more fluidity to move through the ranks. Due to this, women explored themselves as writers, where they took a different look on the individual and the mind than their male counterparts. Amongst those mentioned in the introduction was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jane Austen, and many other poets, novelists, and playwrights. One of which, Joanna Baillie was considered to be "the best dramatic writer since the days of Shakespeare."
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