Newspapers

Abstract

Letters and newspapers of several descriptions stitch places, characters and continents together in The Newcomes. Events and people are not just noticed in papers and journals — they are noticed from particular points of view, mostly in actual but also in fictional papers and journals of various political, artistic and social interests. Every morning at the home of the banker, Sir Brian, appears

A pile of newspapers and letters for the master of the house, The Newcome Sentinel, old county paper, moderate conservative, in which our worthy townsman and member is praised, his benefactions are recorded, and his speeches given at full length; the Newcome Independent, in which our precious member is weekly described as a ninny, and informed almost every Thursday morning that he is a bloated aristocrat, as he munches his dry toast. Heaps of letters, county papers, Times and Morning Herald [major papers for political, foreign and financial news] for Sir Brian Newcome; little heaps of letters (dinner and soirée cards most of these), and Morning Post [extensive reporting of society events] for Mr. Barnes, (p. 183)