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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 advertisement is representative of the foregrounding of facts over fiction in Harper’s Weekly. In contrast to All the Year Round which seeks to instruct through fiction, Harper’s Weekly chooses to instruct by advertising a piece of literature…

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Comparatively, the week the same section of “The Moonstone” appeared Harper’s Weekly, an American publication, it was featured alongside several references, either textual or imagistic, to the now commonplace epistolary lifestyle. The opening page is…

In Harper’s Weekly’s May 30, 1868 issue, the reader sees an advertisement for tobacco pipes, pipe repairs, and pipe holders. This advertisement is an example of “sensational advertising” as we see that the advertisement can catch the reader’s eye…

This is an advertisement from Harper’s Weekly, looking for workers who know how to use sewing machines, or have a general knowledge of sewing. There were a few different clothing advertisements in this issue of Harper’s. They might have been placed…

                The first page of the Harper’s Weekly publication is modest in its attention to the journal itself. ‘Harper’s Weekly’ is seen in plain print at the top of the page, doing little more than reminding the reader in passing that they are…

A column featuring brief biographical information on the Justices of the United States Supreme Court.

This full-page image, “Scene in the Hospital for Incurables on Blackwell’s Island,” appears two pages after The Moonstone in Harper’s Weekly. In W. S. L. Jewry’s illustration, two American women aid a sick man as he lies in a hospital bed. His bed is…

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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…

This advertisement is an appeal to citizens to help contribute to the aid of invalid soldiers. It is a wonderful humanitarian venture that is founded securely on financial donations. The monetary emphasis of this piece is highlighted in the use of…

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                While the second and final page of The Moonstone installment lacks the allure of the title page that precedes it, it still remains clear that Harper’s focus is on the work itself rather than the journal or otherwise. Again, there are…

FIG. 1. Harper’s Weekly, certainly, was well aware of the diversity in individuals that purchased their newspaper. This can most readily be seen in the advertisement pages. The first page of advertisements is filled with an assortment of objects…

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…

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…

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…

This is the title page for The Moonstone in Harper’s Weekly’s, May 30, 1868 instalment. On this page we see two illustrations taking up a good portion of the page. In the title of The Moonstone, the words “RICHLY ILLUSTRATED” are presented as almost…

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…

                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…

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…

This is the first illustration that appears in Harper’s Weekly’s publication of The Moonstone. Combined with the other two images on this first page, the illustration sets the tone for the series’ representation of the novel’s Indian characters.…

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…

                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 article that immediately follows The Moonstone in Harper's Weekly, entitled “Children's Selfishness”. Katie Lanning, like Leverenz, recognizes that “Victorian editors were ‘sensitive’ to the connections readers made between texts in an…

This short comic highlights aspects of American racist ideology by presenting a caricature of an African-American, “Sambo.” This character “soliloquizes” in reply to the Bible verse, “He that giveth to the poor, lendeth to the lord.” In his reply he…

This is the article that immediately follows The Moonstone in All the Year Round, entitled "Carnival Time in Britany". John Drew and Tony Williams, the editors of Dickens Journals Online, identify “Carnival Time in Britany” as a piece of…

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…

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…

This is the front page of the 8 August 1868 edition of Harper’s Weekly. Collins' “popularity [was such] with American readers that his name always appeared before any other novelist in Harper’s catalogues” (Leighton and Surridge 208), and such is…

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…

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 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…