William Thomas Stead

MF calls herself the collector, not the author. She first persuaded Anna Liberata to begin telling stories one day when, as the only woman in the elaborate camp attending her father, she was at a...

After her son's death ASS , like so many others, made some approaches towards spiritualism. Her first experience, with a medium named Husk, repelled her by its crassness and triviality. A second experience, during the...

CS 's father would have liked to have her education entirely in his own hands. The first books to be her favourites were the works of W. T. Stead , and fairy stories by the...

William Stead , a political ally of AB , arranged for her to meet Madame Blavatsky .

She later declared her love for William Stead , which he did not return.

AM continued participation in the Law and Liberty League , which she had helped William Stead (for whom she entertained an unreciprocated love) to found the previous autumn.

As a child she had already met several distinguished writers in England, and Mary Clarke Mohl and Turgenev in France. As a young adult she quickly became known to many eminent members of the...

Here she became a friend of novelist and neighbour George Meredith , who introduced her to a wider social circle, including W.T. Stead , the scandalous journalist and editor of the Pall Mall Gazette...

MBL decided in her teens that she wanted to be a writer. In 1887, with the encouragement of her mother (who was based in France) the two of them embarked on a winter in the...

Initial sales of the work were not strong. W. T. Stead endeavoured to help by promoting the work as the Book of the Month in his Review of Reviews for October 1896.

The Athenæum argued that Anna Lombard was an inartistic book, weakened by VC 's choice of a male narrator: however much or little she may understand women, [Cross] has very little conception of a good...

Reviewers were more approving of Six Chapters of a Man's Life than of many previous Cross novels. The Aberdeen Free Press, for instance, praised her uncommon literary ability, and in the Review of Reviews...

Reviews continued to attack Cross's supposed immorality, even as some acknowledged the force of her writing. The New York Times postulated from Life's Shop Window that Victoria Cross, presumably, is a woman, and perhaps...

Once published, the novel was an astounding success. The New York Times reviewer drew parallels between it and Sara Jeannette Duncan 's A Daughter of To-Day (1894).Many contemporary reviewers found Dixon's...

The Perfect Way was virtually ignored by the mainstream press, though it received a one-line notice in W. T. Stead 's Review of Reviews: Mystical, and very suggestive from the standpoint of the Christian...