First Printing of "Alicia's Diary"

First Printing of "Alicia's Diary"

This is the original printing of "Alicia's Diary". It started in the October 15th, 1887 publication of the Manchester Times and concluded in the next week's publication. There are no images printed anywhere throughout the story in the newspaper, so the reader must really be the one to internalize the story and create it themselves in their own head. For the story being set up like a woman's diary, the publication of it in a serialized newspaper is quite fitting. The first installment ends on quite a cliffhanger, with Alicia asking a very heavy question. All the readers are left with is that the story will be finished in next weeks edition. Ending the first part here really mirrors the way journals are written. Journal entries are written as something is happening, and are often fragmented, leaving off at very pivotal parts. Thomas Hardy's decision to conduct this story as if it were writings in a diary and to publish it serially is a way of immersing the readers into the world and thought process of his central character, Alicia.

Hardy, Thomas

NYPL, British Library Newspapers

Manchester Times

Saturday, October 15, 1887

Unknown

British Library

Newspaper printing

English

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