Victwardian
English
Etymology
- Blend of Victorian + Edwardian.[1] Compare Jacobethan.
Adjective
Victwardian (not comparable)
- Pertaining to, or characteristic or reminiscent of, the Victorian and Edwardian periods (1837–1910)
- 1969, Brigid Brophy, In Transit, London: MacDonald, page 23[2]:
- an amateur method of do-it-yourself exterior house-painting, developed out of military camouflage, whose purpose is, precisely, camouflage: to disguise the silhouettes of Victwardian buildings, to break up the outlines of their structure or pseudo-structure
- 1976, W. M. Spackman, “Review of Selected Poems by Catullus translated by Carl Sesar”, in [3]:
- The present inflation of Catullus into a sort of major poet is no doubt in great part due to Victwardian scholars and their naïve biographical impromptus on the juvenile infatuation the poems record for “Lesbia,” whose real name (a writer 200 years after the event assures us) was Clodia.
- 1993, Catherine Ormell, “Perspective: Sculpture at Chelsea Harbour”, in World Architecture, number 24, ISSN 0956-9758, page 91:
- Elsewhere there are Victwardian street lamps, cute signs shaped like miniature Belvedere towers, and fanciful strings of lights.
- 2014 June, William Gaul, “The Atkinsons At Home”, in Joburg Heritage Journal, volume 1:
- They also enjoyed that quintessential Victwardian (to coin a phrase) holiday treat: riding donkeys over the sands of Tynemouth.
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Synonyms
- Belle Époque
References
- Loreto Todd (1989), “Prose”, in The language of Irish literature, Macmillan, →ISBN, doi:10.1007/978-1-349-19989-1_7, page 142
- Quoted in PhD thesis: David Vichnar (2013) The Avant-Postman: James Joyce, the Avant-Garde & Postmodernism, Prague: Charles University, page 42
- Reprinted in Steven Moore, editor (2017), “Quis Haec Potest Perferre? Qui Possit Pati”, in On the Decay of Criticism: The Complete Essays of W. M. Spackman, Fantagraphics, →ISBN, page 197