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William Thomas Stead
Standard Name: Stead, William Thomas
Used Form: W. T. Stead
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Annie S. Swan | 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... |
Textual Features | Mary Stott | Why, Stott wonders, do national newspapers print so few leading articles by women, when Harriet Martineau
was writing regular leaders for the Daily News back in the mid nineteenth century? Why has there never been... |
Education | Christina Stead | |
Textual Features | Gillian Slovo | The novel deals with the politics behind the warfare: the military struggle for control of Sudan betweenMuhammad Ahmad
(self-styled the Mahdi, a redeemer figure in Islam
) versus the powers of Egypt and Turkey... |
Friends, Associates | Flora Shaw | 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... |
Textual Production | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | May Sinclair
provided an introduction; those who communicated with CADS
were H. F. N. Scott
, Cornish writer Henry Dawson Lowry
, preacher and politician George Dawson
, and journalist W. T. Stead
. |
Friends, Associates | Marie Belloc Lowndes | As a child she had already met several distinguished writers in England, and Mary Clarke Mohl
and Turgenev
in France. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 369-70 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Marie Belloc Lowndes | |
Publishing | Eliza Lynn Linton | This controversial work sold very well. A third edition appeared within three months, and a tenth by 1890. Later reprints included one in William T. Stead
's Penny Series. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 18 |
Author summary | Anna Kingsford | Anna Kingsford
, described by W. T. Stead
as one of the most interesting and fascinating of the women of the Victorian era, Review of Reviews. 13 (January 1896): 75 |
politics | Anna Kingsford | William T. Stead
said of AK
's abilities as a speaker: I have talked to many of the men and women who have in this generation had the greatest repute as conversationalists, but I never... |
Literary responses | Anna Kingsford | 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... |
Anthologization | Mary Frere | 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... |
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 |
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... |
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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Later 1884
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
(later the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
or NSPCC) was founded.
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.