All the Year Round Full Page Text

The text in All the Year Round is double paneled on its pages, with no illustration, breaking only to transition paragraphs. All font is the same throughout the text, reading like a book or magazine which would have been read individually or in more intimate settings. Illustrations were popular in American literature because it was thought that they were less intelligent, whereas in the English journal no illustrations are included. The dates in the sections of Ezra Jennings’ diary are noticeable with dashes at the beginning of each entry which helps to break up the page and emphasize the progression of time throughout the installment, but otherwise the text in All the Year Round is left as a standard literary journal, distinguished primarily by its association with the reputation of Charles Dickens as opposed to by illustration. By being left without images, The Moonstone is almost blank for the reader to project their own imagination onto, which itself may be a marketing advantage to the Victorian audience in England.