Week 9 (Reade archive visit 2)

Here’s a slideshow of photos from our second excursion to the Reade archive.

Hard Cash Illustrations

Above are the illustrations in the Peter Fenelon Collier (1890) illustrated edition of “Hard Cash” in The Works of Charles Reade.

Week 9 (Reade archive visit 1)

Our rainy visit to Charles Reade’s papers in Princeton’s Firestone Library.

Footnotes in Reade’s Hard Cash (Sierra’s booknotes)

While reading Hard Cash, I was struck by how Reade used “paratext” as a space to extend the narrative. His footnotes range from slightly snide narrative asides to detailed references to historical events, terminology, or further reference texts. Below I’ve included

Outlining Process- Week 9, HARD TEAM

Some snapshots of our outlining process! Cathy is not yet back at school so we had a googledocs + Skype outlining session =)