Victorian/Edwardian Clichés

Victorian/Edwardian Clichés

Old world England. The stuff of Romance.

Examples: Sherlock Holmes, Flashman

Clichés Liberated from For Faerie, Queen, & Country

The following clichés were liberated from TSR's For Faerie, Queen, & Country which was part of the Amazing Engine system.

• Clergy - a priest of a specific congregation

• Civil Servant - minor functionaries such as assistant under-secretaries to the deputy counsel or senior clerks of the assistant post-master-general.

• Correspondent - a reporter (usually a struggling novelist or poet)

• Detective - Metropolitan police force (get government sanctioning) or consulting detective (i.e. Sherlock Holmes)

• Dilettante - A dabbler in many things. Seen as either a wasteful member of the rich or a cultured man of means.

• Doctor - no longer butchers, but still feared.

• Entertainer - (music hall performer (singer/comic/dancing girl/variety act)

• Go-Between - In the world of noticeable division between rich and poor, upper and lower classes, someone who can get things done in both worlds.

• Hooligan (Mohock) - a gangster. Hooligan is a thug; Mohock are the more sophisticated version.

• Public Servant - politician (appointed)

• Rustic - country person (farm hand or tenants).

• Solicitor - lawyer

• Barrister - present cases (real work done by solicitor).

• Tinker - A wandering jack-of-all-trades.