Title page of "The Moonstone" chapter X, All the Year Round

Title page of "The Moonstone" chapter X, All the Year Round

In contrast to the illustrated opening on Harper's Weekly, All the Year Round featured a consistently uniform opening of Collin's text mingling with the opening of the newspaper. This uniform opening demonstrates an priority upon the material nature of the newspaper itself. The material in which to interpret genre then becomes the material of both the text, and the newspaper itself. The sensational columns of the Victorian newspaper provided a forum, in which "audiences encountered the voices of other readers or even actual readers themselves through direct correspondence and subsequent liaisons arranged through its columns" (Rubery 79). Rather than the sensationalization through illustration, the British reader is presented with a story that reads like many news stories of the Victorian newspaper. The lurid drama of crime, the scandal of the divorce court, and even correspondence via the personal advertisements, create this system of encountering voices. By mingling Collins text with the opening text of All the Year Round, the line of genre draws heavily toward the scandalous realism seen in Victorian news.

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