Bibliography
Texts by Stead
- The Durham Thirteen (The Northern Echo, 1874)
- The Truth about Russia (1888)
- The Pope and the New Era (1889)
- The Story that Transformed the World (1890)
- Real Ghost Stories (Review of Reviews Annual, 1891)
- More Ghost Stories (Review of Reviews Annual, 1892)
- From the Old World to the New (Review of Reviews Annual, 1892)
- Two and Two Make Four (Review of Reviews Annual, 1893)
- If Christ came to Chicago: a Plea for the Union of All Who Love in the Service of All Who Suffer (1893)
- The Splendid Paupers (Review of Reviews Annual, 1894)
- The Labour War in the United States (1894)
- Blastus, the King's Chamberlain (Review of Reviews Annual, 1895)
- Hymns That Have Helped. (1896)
- The History of the Mystery; or, the Skeleton in Blastus's Cupboard (Review of Reviews Annual, 1896)
- Her Majesty the Queen (1897)
- Satan's Invisible World: A Study of Despairing Democracy (1898)
- The United States of Europe (1899)
- Shall I Slay My Brother Boer? (1899)
- Mr Carnegie's Conundrum (1900)
- Mrs Booth, a Study (1900)
- The Conference at the Hague (1900)
- The Americanisation of the World (1900)
- The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes (1900)
- The Despised Sex (1900)
- Here Am I, Send Me (1904)
- After Death or Letters from Julia (1909)
- The M.P. for Russia: Reminiscences and Correspondence of Madam Olga Novikov (1909)
- The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon, (True Bill Press, NJ, 2007) Reprinted by Prof. Antony E. Simpson (ed.)
Texts about Stead
- J. O. Baylen, "W.T. Stead: a Christ in Chicago" History . 3.3 (1992)
- J. O. Baylen, "W.T. Stead's Controversial Visit to South Africa, 1904" History Today , Vol. 30 Issue: 5, May (1980)
- J. O. Baylen, "W. T. Stead and the New Journalism" Emory University Quarterly , vol. XXI, (1965)
- J. O. Baylen, "The New Journalism in Late Victorian Britain" Australian Journal of Politics and History , vol 18 (1972)
- J. O. Baylen, "W.T. Stead and the Boer War: The Irony of Idealism" Canadian Historical Review , vol xi, (1959)
- J. O. Baylen, "W. T. Stead's History of the Mystery and the Jameson Raid" Journal of British Studies , Vol. IV, (1964)
- J. O. Baylen, "The Press and Public Opinion: W.T. Stead and the New Journalism" Journalism Studies Review , no. 4 (July, 1979)
- J. O. Baylen, "W.T. Stead as Publisher and Editor of the Review of Reviews" Victorian Periodicals Review , (1979)
- J. O. Baylen, "W.T. Stead and the Russian Revolution of 1905" Canadian Journal of History , vol II (1967)
- J. O. Baylen, "W.T. Stead, Apologist for Imperial Russia 1870-1880" Gazette: International Journal of the Science of the Press [Amsterdam], vol VI (1960)
- Grace Eckley, Maiden Tribute: A Life of W.T. Stead (Xlibris Corporation, 2007)
- Victor Pierce Jones, Saint or Sensationalist: The Story of W. T. Stead , (1988)
- Raymond L. Schultz, Crusader in Babylon: W. T. Stead and the Pall Mall Gazette , (University of Nabraska, 1972)
- Estelle W. Stead, My Father: Personal & Spiritual Reminiscences, (1913)
- Frederick Whyte, The Life of W.T. Stead, (2 Vols), (London: Johnathan Cape, 1925)
- Sally Wood, W. T. Stead and his 'Books for the Bairns, (Edinburgh: Salvia Books. 1987)
Other Texts
- Laurel Brake and Julie F. Codell (eds.), Encounters in the Victorian Press: Editors, Authors, Readers (Palgrave, 2004)
- Deborah Gorham, "The 'Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon' Re-examined: Child Prostitution and the Idea of Childhood in Late Victorian England" Victorian Studies , Vol 21, No. 3, Spring (1978)
- Jane Jordan, Josephine Butler (2001)
- Chris Lloyd, Attacking the Devil: 150 Years of the Northern Echo (Northern Echo, 1999)
- Maurice Milne, The Newspapers of Northumberland and Durham: a study of their progress during the ‘Golden Age' of the Provincial Press, (Northumberland Press, 1971)
- Miles Ogborn, "Law and Discipline in Nineteenth Century English State Formation: The Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866 and 1869", Journal of Historical Sociology , Vol. 6, No. 1, (March 1993)
- Alison Plowden, The Case of Eliza Armstrong: ‘A Child of 13 Bought for £5', (1974)
- J. W. Robertson Scott, The Story of the Pall Mall Gazette (1950)
- J. W. Robertson Scott, The Life and Death of a Newspaper, (1952)
- R T. Shannon, Gladstone and the Bulgarian Agitation, (Harvard Press, 1975)
- Terrot Charles, The Maiden Tribute: A Study of the White Slave Traffic of the Nineteenth Century, (1954)
- Keith Thomas, "The Double Standard" Journal of the History of Ideas, 20, (1959)
- Judith R. Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London, (1990)
- Judith R. Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, class, and the State, (Cambridge, 1980)
- Aaron Watson, A Newspaper Man's Memories (1924)
- Jeffrey Weeks, Sex, Politics & Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800, (1981)
- Joel H. Wiener, Papers for the Millions:the New Journalism in Britain, 1850s to 1914 , (1988)




Stead by his Peers
W.T. Stead to the Rev. Henry Kendall (April 11, 1871)
