William thomas stead biography books
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There’s a footnote about W.T. Stead in my new book, Bad News. But he’s such a fascinating character that he’s deserving of much more than that. So here’s a reminder of the biography published a few years back and which is still a cracking read…
William Thomas Stead, who died on the Titanic, was not only Britain’s first investigative journalist, he also epitomised the profession’s strengths and dark side within his own career.
He was at times brilliant, unearthing horrors and using the power of publicity to secure reform, and at times appalling, bending the truth and ruining people’s lives as he abandoned accuracy for melodramatic fiction.
Central to this mixed record was his ‘purchase’ in 1885 of a 13-year-old child, Eliza Armstrong, and transportation of her to a brothel, supposedly to expose child prostitution. He took the stunt far further than necessary, forcibly, deceitfully and unnecessarily keeping the family split up and out of touch with each other well beyond any need to demonstrate the scandal of child prostitution. Initially, it worked for him – shock headlines, scrambling politicians and a legislative panic. It looks like at least some of Stead’s accounts involved a degree of falsehood
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W. T. Stead
(Stead, W. T. (William Thomas), 1849-1912)
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- Stead, W. T. (William Thomas), 1849-1912, contrib.: Africa: Its Partition and its Future (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1898), also contrib. by Henry M. Stanley, Harry Thurston Peck, John Scott Keltie, Fritz Bley, Paul Guieysse, Charles Lemaire, Henry Norman, George Taubman Goldie, F. D. Lugard, Tristram Charles Sawyer Speedy, Joseph C. Hartzell, Edward Heawood, and Henry K. Carroll
- Stead, W. T. (William Thomas), 1849-1912: After Death, or Letters from Julia: A Personal Narrative (fourth edition; Chicago: Progressive Thinker Pub. House, 1910)
- Stead, W. T. (William Thomas), 1849-1912: After Death, or Letters from Julia: A Personal Narrative (10th edition, 1917) (PDF in the UK)
- Stead, W. T. (William Thomas), 1849-1912: If Christ Came to Chicago! A Plea for the Union of All Who Love in the Service of All Who Suffer (Chicago: Laird and Lee, 1894) (PDF files with commentary at Northwestern)
- Stead, W. T. (William Thomas), 1849-1912, contrib.: Side Lights (London: T. F. Unwin, 1893), by James Runciman, ed. by John F. Runciman, also contrib. by Grant Allen (Gutenberg text)
- Stead, W. T. (William Thomas), 1849-1912