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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 our post-Victorian era, it is not always necessary to cover your ankles – but fashion’s ongoing love-in with sports shoes means socks are still essential if you don’t want an unpleasant waft.

From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2019

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

From BBC • May 6, 2017

So if some astute reasoner of the future comes across such allusion in any writings, it will be clear proof that the author was post-Victorian!

From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Jennings, Frederick Charles