-iana, suffix
Form of -ana suffix added to nouns whose adjectival suffix is, or would be, -ian.
| 1679 [see bibliographical a.]. 1718 [see Shakespeariana]. 1728 J. Smedley (title) Gulliveriana: or, a fourth volume of Miscellanies, being a sequel to the three volumes published by Pope and Swift. To which is added, Alexanderiana, etc. 1776 [see Johnsoniana]. 1800 (title) Walpoliana. 1838 (title) Railroadiana. A New History of England, or Picturesque..Sketches..Descriptive of the Vicinity of the Railroads. 1879 G. J. Finch-Hatton Voices through Many Years III. 85 Gladstoniana. Ibid. 118 Grevilliana. 1890 Century Mag. Aug. 515/2 A number of these ‘whaleiana’ hang in the ‘Captains' Room’. 1898 W. Graham Last Links with Byron 120 Several writers of Keatsiana follow that most inaccurate of writers,..Leigh Hunt. 1902, etc. [see Edwardiana n. pl.]. 1929 Daily Tel. 22 Jan. 6/5 The personal papers of James Boswell..are being published... Sixteen or eighteen volumes will eventually be needed to hold all the new Boswelliana. 1952 J. Carter ABC for Bk.-Collectors 19 Boswelliana, Railroadiana, Etoniana... Harveiana and Dickensiana..Wiseiana. 1972 Country Life 17 Jan. 223/2 In his..biography William Butterfield..Dr Paul Thompson has hauled in Butterfieldiana in shoals..churches, colleges, schools, hospitals, cottages. |