#w.t. stead

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

W.T. Stead (introduction by Leslie Shepard) - Borderland - University Books - 1970

[johncooper-oscarwilde]

Men of Letters

The Destiny of Two of Wilde’s Friends Names like A.A. Milne and Z.Z. Top are not just at the opposite ends of the 20th century’s cultural and chronological spectrum, they are polar examples of another kind. I mean, of course, in the alphabetical use of two initials as a form of nomenclature, which, as a device, often makes for a memorable moniker.  Oscar Wilde, in his time, knew a few…

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[the-october-country]

“In his work on Spiritualism, W. T. Stead wrote as both a commentator and a practitioner. In the same office, by the same hand, he penned editorial pieces for his occultist journal and engaged in spirit-writing. Stead claimed to serve as an amanuensis for the spirit of the late Julia Ames and printed her first-person accounts of the nature of life after death in the pages of Borderland.” - ‘Julia Says’: The Spirit-Writing and Editorial Mediumship of W. T. Stead (see full article here)

[1900scartoons]

Mr. Stead Plans a Peace Trip To South America

October 9, 1907

South America panics as William T. Stead approaches with a peace plan for Latin America. Uncle Sam looks on happily.

The caption reads "South America - 'Help! Help! Monroe Doctrine! Call him off, Uncle Sam; you know what this means.'"

Stead was a prominent Peace activist and newspaperman who had worked to create a united Europe. Several of his previous attempts to broker peace had failed, such as in the Russian Revolution of 1905.

From Hennepin County Library

Original available at: https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/Bart/id/5561/rec/1735

[detroitlib]

From our vertical files: “W. T. Stead, who went down on the Titanic (in April, 1912), revisits his daughter Estelle in this photograph taken by Mrs. Deane, a prominent British spirit photographer, in October, 1915. (From Ghosts in Photographs.)” Charles Reynolds. Popular Photography, 8/1978.

[beyond-borderlands]

Via Paul Rumsey:

"Watts, an allegorical painter who employed art to convey moral messages, uses the character of the Minotaur to signify man's bestiality and especially male lust. The making and meaning of The Minotaur can be traced to the social purity crusades against child prostitution, which led in 1885 to the passing of the Criminal Law Amendment Act and the raising of the age of consent from thirteen to sixteen. In the forefront of these crusades was the figure of W.T. Stead (1849-1912), whose series of articles on the London trade in child prostitution were published in the Pall Mall Gazette in July 1885 under the title 'The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon'. Stead's explicit references to the Greek myth of the Minotaur throughout his exposé reputedly inspired the subject of Watts's painting: 'The appetite of the minotaur of London is insatiable', wrote Stead ; 'If the daughters of the people must be served up as dainty morsels to minister to the passions of the rich, let them at least attain an age when they can understand the nature of the sacrifice which they are asked to make' (quoted in Mathews, p.339)." 

[j2parman]

Men who make history don't write news.

John Pemble, "The Only True Throne," a review of W. Sydney Robinson, Muckracker, a biography of W.T. Stead, a 19th-century journalist, London Review of Books, 19 July 2012, page 9. Winston Churchill is one exception.