"Fin de siecle" refers specifically to the ending of one of these time periods
Wells, Joseph Conrad, and the fin de sicle by ... Delbanco explains, these 
writers lived closely to one another in Kent during the ... occurred well into the 
Edwardian Era, to explore Wells and Conrad's conflicting beliefs ..... Fin de sicle, 
or end of the century, refers to the last years of the Nineteenth.