"Queer Street" - Sensation Columns of All The Year Round [text]

"Queer Street" - Sensation Columns of All The Year Round [text]

The article immediately following The Moonstone chapter X, Queer Street, provides an example of the sensational columns in Victorian newspapers. While not an agony column, to contemporary readers Queer Street meant "an imaginary street where people in difficulties (esp. financial ones) are supposed to reside" (OED). Although an imaginary street, the details of this article reflect what Rubery argued with the idea of relevance, accuracy, and realism inspiring the sensational writers. Queer Street even seems rather aware of this contact, and its relationship to the dailies, as the speaker notes" "A man I know very well, and who knows me not at all" (103). 

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