Image of Charles Dickens seated at a table with books, ca. 1860.{{PD-US}} Accompanied by text that says: Anne-Marie Millim, “Crossing Currents: The Mother Tongue, Monolingualism, and Multilingualism in Household Words and All the Year Round,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2024.

Anne-Marie Millim considers how #Dickens ’s journals championed the view that only a native speaker can master a language. Learn how contributors to #HouseholdWords and #AllTheYearRound worked to implement a prestige language in VPR 57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org