petty bourgeois--how old?

[Ellen Elias-Bursac]

For its English-language usage, the Online Etymology Dictionary says:
petit bourgeois "conventional middle-class" (1853, used by Charlotte Brontë
earlier than by Marx or Engels; petty bourgeois, however, is attested from
1850).

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Jules Levin <ameliede at earthlink.net> wrote:

>  How old is the phrase "melkiy burzhua/burzhuy"?
> If used in the 19th Century, would it have been used as an official class
> or category, or only in the
> rhetorical style of certain circles?
> Jules Levin
> Los Angeles
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