Category:All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal

Title: All the Year Round

Editor: Charles Dickens

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All the Year Round was the second of Dickens’s successful journals. The journal came about after Dickens had a dispute with the publisher of the first journal, Household Words. All the Year Round was issued weekly, and eventually merged with Household Words. The majority of the journal’s content was made up of stories both fictional and non-fictional. The journal’s intended audience was large in scope, though the stories seem most suited to the middle classes. The stories included short fiction of all variety, meant mainly to entertain and sometimes briefly point at some moral issue. Non-fiction dealing with science, archeology, and foreign places and people is regularly included. Additional staples of the journal include: advertisements, trade songs, poetry and general advice. The first story of each issue tends to be an installment of one of Dickens’s novels usually containing three to five chapters. No authors, excepting Dickens, were identified with their writings. The journal ended a few years after Dickens’s death with his son as general editor.

Submitted by: Peterson, Mitchell: section 1, Fall 2007