Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1905, from Victorian + -ism.
Usage examples of "victorianism".
But it is fair to say that in the next of them, a workman and a tradesman, we already feel something of that return to real issues leading up to the real revolts that broke up Victorianism at last.
It should come as no surprise that the period ends with another earnest Victorian making wonderful, irreverent fun of respectability and earnestness, putting Victorianism in its final place, as he so often did, with epigrammatic and telling wit.
There came a hideous return to the worst prudery of Victorianism as society fought the sexual and moral dangers of jaunting with protocol and taboo.
Surely one man can't be refor the entire neo-puritan movement-isn't it a reaction against the permissivity of the last century, as Victorianism was against the bawdiness of early times?