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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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. 62 |
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. 240 |
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. 200-1 |
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. 200-1 |
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. 7 |
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 Dixon, Ella Hepworth. The Story of a Modern Woman. Editor Farmer, Steve, Broadview. 196-7, 196n1 |