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This excerpt is from the story printed immediately after “The Moonstone”. This story appears to be a fictionalized depiction of a gentleman’s visit to Venezuala. Throughout the narrative, the speaker is fascinated and bemused by the behavior of…

This page is covered in fiscally influenced words. These words include: free, warranted, merchants, bankers, coppers, sells, lower classes, poor, economy, wealth, gold, savings, rich, ounce, stock, and reduced prices, among others. Almost every…

This image emphasizes the overt materialistic perspective of this edition of Harper’s Magazine. Even though Part VI of “The Moonstone” clearly describes the diamond as being small enough to shine in Rachel Verinder’s dress, this image depicts the…

Unmistakably, the advertisement section of All the Year Round is much different than that of Harper’s. All the Year Round’s exclusion of illustrations in the advertisement section continues to place an emphasis on text alone. Furthermore, the…

This is the end of The Moonstone instalment,in the All the Year Round. Right after The Moonstone, we see an ad for a news vendor’s shop. This advertisement differs from Harper’s Weekly, as it stays within the format of the non-illustrated All the…

All the Year Round, a weekly journal published in England by Charles Dickens, featured an unillustrated version of The Moonstone. Each installment of the story was released in plain text in standard magazine or book format with double panelled pages.…

                The All the Year Round title page for Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone serves as the main point of comparison and contrast to Harper’s Weekly. This journal is concerned entirely with its own reputation, harnessing not only the fame of…

This is another piece of fiction that follows ‘The Moonstone’ in All the Year Round. The predominance of fiction shows the importance placed on words and creativity in the magazine. This particular section details a conversations between a poor,…

Here is the title page for Wilkie Collin’s The Moonstone, in All the Year Round. Unlike Harper’s Weekly, All the Year Round does not have illustrations incorporated within its text. Although there are no illustrations, All the Year Round still has…

While the text itself of the second and third page of All the Year Round’s publication of The Moonstone does not differ much from the second page of the same publication in Harper’s Weekly, the display of the journal on these pages do contrast with…

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…

                Almost indistinguishable from the pages before, the sixth and seventh pages of All the Year Round’s The Moonstone do little to stimulate the imagination or attention of its readers. It is important to note that page 172 and 173 were…

                The last page of All the Year Round’s publication of Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone does not surprise the reader with any interesting images or foreshadowing illustrations. This is especially interesting when considering the fact that…

In the Header for The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins' name is notably absent while the other works that he did are represented, in particular the works that had been previously published in one or the other of Dickens' two journals. In contrast, the…

This is the front page of the 8 August 1868 edition of All the Year Round. There is a marked contrast in the way that the American and the British front pages present the story; most importantly, All the Year Round emphasizes the story itself in a…

Whereas the title of The Moonstone was a highlight of the page in All the Year Round, the titles of following works in the publication are not nearly as notable. The plain text of The Moonstone transitions unceremoniously into a new story with an…

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…

This image is the title page of chapters Eight and Nine of the Moonstone in All the Year Round. All the Year Round formats the title page in a way that reinforces the idea of proper Englishness. Clear, clean text formatted symmetrically on the page…

This image is an article that came after Chapter’s Eight and Nine of the Moonstone titled the Language of Animals in All the Year Round. The article tries to determine whether animals have languages similar to humans by looking at the sounds that…

The layout of the text in All the Year Round is uniform throughout the journal and quite formal. Each text is presented without images, in two separate columns, and with the large All the Year Round header. The formality of the layout and the unified…

The table of contents lists the texts by title rather than by author but it is in the table of contents where The Moonstone is given a bit of distinction from everything else. While the entry for The Moonstone still lacks the name of the author,…

This excerpt from All the Year Round alludes to a number of sources, of varying genre. There is the scientific "lecture on physiology" ("All the Year Round" 100), which is referenced and cited twice, and the reference to Confessions of an English…

Published in Charles Dickens' journal All The Year Round, Wilkie Collins' "The Moonstone" stands alone on the page of the publication, giving the reader the opportunity to appreciate the text on it's own. In this section Betteredge receives a…

This is as close as we get to a mention of correspondence in All The Year Round. It’s a note from the editors of the journal to it’s expectant readers signifying what will be contained in the following weeks serial. Essentially it is a note from one…

File consists of three drafts of poem. Item two is a duplicate copy of item one with holograph revisions pertaining to capitalization and spacing; item three has holograph annotation "final." Items one and two have variant title West Vancouver Ferry.…

Draft of poem.

Part of second draft and drafts six, seven, eight and nine of poem. Includes holograph insert by E. Birney: "various drafts of Arrivals".

File consists of drafts of poem. Item two has E. Birney's holograph annotation "not final form."

File consists of second and final drafts of poem written in Mexico.

File consists of draft of poem.

The ascetic differences between the two journals can be easily spotted. While the inclusion of illustrations in Harper’s appears to further accommodate a middle-lower class readership and a taste for the sensational, All the Year Round’s exclusion of…

All the Year Round—a London-based periodical edited by Charles Dickens—was marketed as a literary journal that would “assist in the discussion of the Social Questions of the Day” (“New Readerships”). While it purported to be a journal for “all…

This is the last paragraph of The Moonstone, as it appears in Harper's Weekly. Harper’s Weekly advertises the story as “printed from the author’s manuscript”, but that is not strictly true. There is one notable variant in the American version, as…

This is the last paragraph of The Moonstone, as it appears in All the Year Round. I will mention again that the British version uses an exclamation point instead of a question mark in the last line of the novel, the effect of which is that the tone…

As Loesberg writes in her essay titled “The Ideology of Narrative Form in Sensation Fiction”: “Class fear was distinctive in this period” (118). In such a rapidly changing world, middle-lower class individuals encroaching on the practices and…

This article accompanies All the Year Round’s first Moonstone publication. The article begins by discussing different types of flies that are found in the Old World and the New World. It starts out as a harmless, rather domestic conversation on the…