William Thomas Stead

Standard Name: Stead, William Thomas
Used Form: W. T. Stead

Connections

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Occupation Matthew Arnold
Arnold was particularly critical of W. T. Stead , whom he referred to as the inventor of new journalism.
Sweet, Matthew. Inventing the Victorians. St Martin’s Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships Annie Besant
William Stead , a political ally of AB , arranged for her to meet Madame Blavatsky .
Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships Annie Besant
She later declared her love for William Stead , which he did not return.
Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Friends, Associates Annie Besant
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.
Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Publishing Annie Besant
AB and William Stead founded The Link magazine, which first appeared on 4 February 1888; each weekly issue sold for a halfpenny. The front page quoted Victor Hugo : I will speak for the dumb...
Occupation Mary Frances Billington
MFB was earning enough from her career in journalism to be able to support herself by her late teens. She established herself as a successful writer and editor for national dailies and a career journalist...
Literary responses Emma Frances Brooke
W. T. Stead 's rapid and strong disaproval of the novel on grounds of immorality in the Pall Mall Gazette spelled instant notoriety. Despite EFB 's moral purpose, Stead declared: its whole significance lies in...
politics Josephine Butler
JB was closely involved with The Maiden Tribute, W. T. Stead 's exposé of child abduction and forced prostitution in London, which began to appear in the Pall Mall Gazette in July.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research.
190: 71
Textual Production Josephine Butler
JB published her portrait Rebecca Jarrett, about the reformed prostitute who had helped W. T. Stead expose sexual traffic in children.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Literary responses Josephine Butler
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.
Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray.
276
politics Frances Power Cobbe
She remained active in a range of political causes until her death. W. T. Stead in 1894 billed her as the oldest New Woman now living on this planet.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
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Literary responses Victoria Cross
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...
Literary responses Victoria Cross
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...
Literary responses Victoria Cross
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...
Literary responses Ella Hepworth Dixon
Once published, the novel was an astounding success.
Fehlbaum, Valerie. Ella Hepworth Dixon: the Story of a Modern Woman. Ashgate.
127
The New York Times reviewer drew parallels between it and Sara Jeannette Duncan 's A Daughter of To-Day (1894).
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. The Story of a Modern Woman. Editor Farmer, Steve, Broadview.
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Many contemporary reviewers found Dixon's...

Timeline

7 February 1865: The first issue appeared of George Smith's...

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7 February 1865

The first issue appeared of George Smith 's innovative evening newspaper, The Pall Mall Gazette.

Later 1884: The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty...

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6 July 1885: The first instalment of W. T. Stead's Maiden...

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6 July 1885

The first instalment of W. T. Stead 's Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette, exposing the alleged sale of young girls in prostitution.

12 July 1885: Lloyd's Weekly News published the story of...

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12 July 1885

Lloyd's Weekly News published the story of Mrs Armstrong, whose daughter's purchase as a white slave had been recounted in Stead 's Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon.

August 1885: The most powerful social purity organization,...

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August 1885

The most powerful social purity organization, the National Vigilance Association , was founded.

23 October 1885: The trial began in London of W. T. Stead...

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23 October 1885

The trial began in London of W. T. Stead and others for the abduction of Eliza Armstrong , purchased as a white slave.

5 November 1885: W. T. Stead published his defence, which...

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5 November 1885

W. T. Stead published his defence, which had been deemed inadmissible in court, of his motives for abductingEliza Armstrong for his Pall Mall Gazette exposé of July.

Early November 1885: Four of the six defendants in the W. T. Stead...

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Early November 1885

Four of the six defendants in the W. T. Stead abduction case (following his attempt to expose the white slave trade) were found guilty.

November 1887: The Law and Liberty League was founded by...

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November 1887

The Law and Liberty League was founded by newspaper publisher W.T. Stead and socialist/secularist Annie Besant .

4 February 1888: Annie Besant and W.T. Stead edited the first...

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4 February 1888

Annie Besant and W.T. Stead edited the first weekly issue of The Link: A Journal for the Servants of Man / Law and Liberty League, published in London.

April 1890: W. T. Stead established the Review of Reviews...

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April 1890

W. T. Stead established the Review of Reviews Office in Mowbray House, London.

1895: William Thomas Stead established the Review...

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1895

William Thomas Stead established the Review of Reviews Circulatory Library in London to make available books for all adults and children regardless of class.

November 1896: The Publishers Council objected to series...

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November 1896

The Publishers Council objected to series such as Popular New Novels, The Masterpiece Library, and the Review of Reviews, all of which published abridgements of popular novels and were edited by W. T. Stead .

1 January 1897: Grant Richards, who had been an assistant...

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1 January 1897

Grant Richards , who had been an assistant editor on W. T. Stead 's Review of Reviews, founded his own publishing house at 9 Henrietta Street in Covent Garden.

Texts

Stead, William Thomas. “Book of the Month: The Novel of the Modern Woman”. Review of Reviews, Vol.
10
, pp. 64-74.
Besant, Annie, and William Thomas Stead, editors. The Link. A. Bonner.