mid-Victorian

American  

[mid-vik-tawr-ee-uhn, -tohr-] / ˈmɪd vɪkˈtɔr i ən, -ˈtoʊr- /

adjective

1. of, relating 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.

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noun

1. a person, as a writer, belonging to the mid-Victorian time.

2. a person of mid-Victorian tastes, standards, ideas, etc.

mid-Victorian British  

adjective

1. history of or relating to the middle period of the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901)

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noun

1. a person of the mid-Victorian era

Other Word Forms

• mid-Victorianism noun

Etymology

Origin of mid-Victorian

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

The husband and wife fled across the Atlantic in December that year, settling first in Ockham, Surrey, before making their home at 26 Cambridge Grove, a mid-Victorian House in Hammersmith, west London.

From BBC

Life expectancy in the mid-Victorian era was barely over 40 years.

From Washington Post

“You and I know if we have a chocolate hobnob, we will feel better afterwards, but I don’t know if, in the past, people would have articulated that feeling. From a historical perspective, the closest comparison comes from the mid-Victorian era, when middle-class families were moving to cities and cookery writers such as Mrs Beeton introduced an element of rural nostalgia to their books to help housewives feel connected to their pastoral upbringings.”

From The Guardian

As one historian has noted, the “ideological strand to Palmerston’s diplomacy … appealed to the aggressive national chauvinism that was such an important component of the mid-Victorian psyche”.

From The Guardian

The large painting that could be seen hanging above Sir Graham's head dates from mid-Victorian times.

From BBC