Image 4 - Horse Meat

Advertisements are not a function in All the Year Round. So, this section will discuss how the lack of ads can injure the narrative. While Harpers Weekly pushes the narrative, All the Year Round creates a different Narrative. All the Year Round does have one short story that revolves around horse meat. The very first line being “To eat horse-flesh is the first duty of a man" (252 All the Year Round). Dicken's curates his magazine to appeal to a particular audience, and this audience is predominantly older white men. It could be questioned that he did not decide to include pieces that would complement this section of The Moonstone because this second was very focused on Rosanna and her disability. Disability was something that was hidden in British culture. These stories blend in with The Moonstone with no real ideas or narratives sticking out or created. Harpers Weekly had images and adds that worked together to drive a narrative, while All the Year Round has a collection of texts that can be read separately, and have no real cohesive hold together. Rosanna is still othered as Collins text has not been altered, but the following material does not aid the aftereffect.

Collins, Wilkie. The Moonstone. Edited by John Sutherland, Oxford University Press, 2008