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It was a movement of skepticism directed toward the post-Victorian middle class, an overhaul of the entire legacy of comfort, security, paranoia, rigidity, and hierarchy.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

She challenged the idea that the poor and working class were more liberal than the rich and warned against the post-Victorian Bloomsbury circle of Virginia Woolf, E.M.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2019

In the post-Victorian age, flamboyant funerals fell out of favour and with them, ornate tombs.

From BBC • May 6, 2017

It was this very quality that led to his fall from favor in the post-Victorian age.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 1, 2016

"The Heart of Darkness" he had never heard of before nor "The Madonna of the Future"—no doubt if they were indeed stories, they were by post-Victorian authors.

From The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)