Janeiten.
/ˈdʒeɪnʌɪt/ = Austenite n.1 at Austenian adj. and n. Derivatives.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > imitation or admiration of specific writer > follower or student of specific writer
Tacitist1656
Johnsonian1778
Richardsonian1778
Miltonist1830
Voltairean1842
Dickensite1849
Shakespearolater1875
Cervantist1881
Rabelaisian1882
Dickensian1885
Peacockian1886
Zolaist1886
Meredithian1892
Hardyan1896
Janeite1896
Stevensonian1897
Kiplingite1898
Hazlittian1902
Austenite1903
Balzacian1905
Shavian1905
Boswellian1908
Jacobite1909
Thackerayan1909
Trollopian1910
Wellsian1916
Proustian1919
Sitwellian1920
Pirandellist1925
Thoreauvian1927
Walpolian1927
Austenian1928
Stendhalian1928
Poeist1929
Morrisite1936
Joycean1938
Wodehousian1939
Lucianist1940
Woolfian1944
Leavisite1946
Jamesian1954
Yeatsian1954
Leavisian1955
Lawrentian1957
Lawrentian1959
Beckettian1965
Orwellian1971
1896 G. Saintsbury Hist. 19th Cent. Lit. 129 It did not apparently occur to this critic that he (or she) was in the first place paying Miss Austen an extraordinarily high compliment—a compliment almost greater than the most enthusiastic ‘Janites’ have ventured.
1924 R. Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 147 (heading) The Janeites.
1927 Observer 5 June 6/3 Clearly he is not a Janeite.
1928 Daily Tel. 7 Aug. 3/3 The best page of her book by far is her spirited defence of Jane Austen, which will endear her to the ‘Jane-ites’ for all time.
1947 W. J. Blyton in Eng. Lang. & Lit. vii. 111/1 Men as masculine as Scott and Kipling have been Jane-ites and have been enthralled by her sly humour and fidelity to reality.
1972 N. Freeling Long Silence ii. 149 Arlette was not a Janeite, and..it was accidentally that she let slip..that Piet used to call her ‘Bates’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
<
n.1896