Cover of VPR 57.4, Special Issue: Currents and Currencies. Image credit: “The Revolution in France,” London Illustrated News, February 26, 1848, 118. Table of contents: Introduction Currents and Currencies in the Victorian Periodical Press VICTORIA CLARKE AND ANNEMARIE MCALLISTER Articles General News in Early and Mid-Victorian Class Periodicals: The Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1841–70 ALI HATAPÇI Cash for Questions: Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett’s Female Detectives, Journalism, and the Case of the Missing Income SARA LODGE Commercialised Temperance: The Phenomenon of the Temperance Companion and How It Stayed Afloat ANNEMARIE MCALLISTER Crossing Currents: The Mother Tongue, Monolingualism, and Multilingualism in Household Words and All the Year Round ANNE-MARIE MILLIM Seriality and Characterisation in the Press: Death Club Sensationalism, the 1848 Revolutions, and Reviews of Mary Barton CAMILLE STALLINGS Book Reviews Biographies Endnotes
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