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"Double Allegiance" and "Englishman Upon Ireland" [Text}
This image contains two articles found before the moonstone in the January 25th edition of Harper’s Weekly. The two articles discuss political policies in England. The article “Double Allegiance” discusses the absurdity of England’s allegiance laws…
"Flies"
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…
"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…
"The boy became stiff, and stood like a statue, looking into the ink in the hollow of his hand."
This illustration, the third and last that accompany part one of The Moonstone in Harper’s Weekly, presents another interpretation of the three Indians who search for the moonstone in England. They surround a boy who holds the magical ink in his…
"The Language of Animals" [Text]
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 Moonstone will have its vengeance yet on you and yours"
In this illustration, the second of three that cover part one of Harper’s printing of The Moonstone, the American editors are keen to represent the aggression of the British Empire, while fostering sympathy for the Indians. We know from the text that…
"Weigh it in your hand, sir," she said to the Sergeant. [image]
In the ninth serial part of The Moonstone, Mr. Betteredge and Sergeant Cuff travel to the nearby town of Cobb’s Hole to pay a visit to friends of Rosanna Spearman. While the journey is not far in distance, it is worlds away from the genteel setting…
"Who can tell!" in All the Year Round [Text]
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…
"Who can tell?" in Harper's Weekly [Text]
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…
Typescript draft of The Studhorse Man, page 339
Typescript from the third draft of Robert Kroetsch's 1969 novel The Studhorse Man.
Typescript draft of The Studhorse Man, page 340
Typescript from the third draft of Robert Kroetsch's 1969 novel The Studhorse Man.
1. Higgins determines to send... (Image)
The previous image depicted Harper’s Weekly’s continual Valentine’s Day propaganda. Henkin suggests it to be a theme of the publication’s as an effort to “defend the “Valentine mania” against cynicism in 1859” and offers other examples of their…
A Pair of Horse Pictures [text]
In her 2010 book The Discourses of Food in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, Annette Cozzi asserts that food is a significant cultural item that works to establish insider/outsider dynamics within and across communities (5). In her chapter devoted…
Absolute Statement for my Mother
Concrete poetry
Advertisement for news vendor's shop from All the Year Round [text]
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…
Ajijic: [poem]
File consists of second and final drafts of poem written in Mexico.
Alaska Passage: [poem]
File consists of draft of poem.
