William James Blake

In her second week in LondonCS was taken on as a secretary by a grain merchant firm managed by an American, William Blech . When an agency first recommended this job, paying two pounds...

CS , aged nearly fifty, married her fifty-seven-year-old partner Bill Blake , unemployed Marxist writer and ex-banker, after his divorce finally came through and after they had been nearly twenty-five years together.

William Blake , husband of CS , died in the Westminster Hospital, London, from stomach cancer, one week after an operation which removed part of his stomach—a terrible blow for Stead.

Within a year CS had become the lover of her American manager at work. William James Blech (later Blake) , whom she called Wilhelm at first and later Bill. He was both an investment...

At a time when proletarian fiction was all the rage, she felt she was writing an ideologically correct work that would expose the sordid machinations of fraudulent capitalists, though she realised that while perhaps revolutionary...

CS and Bill Blech left Paris, where they had been living at 10 rue Jean Bart, for London, where within four months they settled in a seventh-storey flat at 78, Chiltern Court, Baker Street.

CS , her partner Bill Blech , and Bill's mother , left London (abandoning all their possessions there), streaked through Ireland from Dublin to Galway, and boarded a boat for Boston, Massachusetts.

CS left New York (having lived in the USA for nine years) and embarked for Antwerp in Belgium to join her partner, William James Blake , who had gone ahead to war-shattered Europe.

Six years after her husband 's death, CS left London to return for good to Sydney, Australia, which she had left more than forty-five years before. She spent some months in New York en route.

She had begun the manuscript five and half years before the book was published. Her partner Bill Blech (not yet accustomed to her lengthy and agonising reworkings) observed that if she live[d] to the...