cockneydom

In 1897, at the very beginning of his scathing review of the performance of two "Chinese" plays, The Cat and the Cherub by Chester Bailey Fernald at the Lyric Theatre and The First Born by Francis Powers at the Globe Theatre, George Bernard Shaw attacked what he called "the Chinatown play" imported from America as "the latest attempt to escape from hackneydom and cockneydom" on the British stage.

Author Will Self writes on the magazine's website: "Moss has aged and continues to age - not gracefully, for she's a suburban hellion from the outer limits of Cockneydom, but beguilingly."