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In the funeral tribute to his personal friend who had died aboard the Titanic, Lord Milner portrayed Stead as ‘a ruthless fighter, who had always believed himself to be “on the…
This article examines the strange correspondences between the work of two writers, Henry James and W. T. Stead, whose authorial voices are ostensibly very distinct from each other. While Stead…
‘If I am remembered at all a hundred years hence, it will be as Julia’s amanuensis!’1 In 1909, W. T. Stead converted his old offices in Norfolk Street, just off…
Though the phrase the ‘New Journalism’ did not become current in British periodicals until the later 1880s — the earliest recorded instances appear to date from articles issued around the…
I. Introduction Mr. Stead’s frankness is the frankness of friendship. He is the Sir Galahad, the King Arthur whose chivalry is beyond question, for it has extended to something more than…
