mid-Victorian

mid-Victorian
mid-Victorianism, n.
/mid"vik tawr"ee euhn, -tohr"-/, adj.
1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the middle portion (about 1850 to 1890) of the reign of Queen Victoria (reigned 1837-1901) in England: mid-Victorian writers.
n.
2. a person, as a writer, belonging to the mid-Victorian time.
3. a person of mid-Victorian tastes, standards, ideas, etc.
[1900-05]

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