Monday, July 18, 2011

Did the Victorians refer to themselves as Victorian?

I've been wondering about this. Generally, I'm thinking they didn't, but part of me does wonder if they, and the Georgians and Edwardians would refer to themselves like this. I can't find when the term 'Elizabethan' was 'invented' as it were, but I remember vaguely reading somewhere that it was the nineteenth century or so. If it was, and they referred to people living in the reign of Elizabeth as Elizabethan, could they have referred to themselves as people under their monarch?

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