Stead on Children & Life at Grainey Hill

W.T. Stead on Children & Life at Grainey Hill (1893) (Quoted in Estelle W. Stead, My Father: Personal & Spiritual Reminiscences (1913) pp. 101-103 Grainey Hill was an ideal place for children.…

The Salvation Army’s Arrival in Darlington

The Salvation Army’s Arrival in Darlington in 1879 (1893) (Quoted in Estelle W. Stead, My Father: Personal & Spiritual Reminiscences (1913) pp. 97-100 At first respectable Darlington held aloof. Then the emissaries…

Stead on his Editorship of the Northern Echo

W.T. Stead on his Editorship of the Northern Echo (1893) (Quoted in Estelle W. Stead, My Father: Personal & Spiritual Reminiscences (1913) pp. 107-109 When I was editing the Northern Echo I was a…

W. T. Stead on his Childhood & Early Career

W. T. Stead on his Childhood & Early Career (April 15, 1893) Quoted in J. W. Robertson Scott, The Life and Death of a Newspaper, (1952), pp. 90-96 In 1850 we…

Stead’s Reminiscences of the “Maiden Tribute” Campaign

W.T. Stead’s Reminiscences of the “Maiden Tribute” Campaign (undated) Quoted in Estelle W. Stead, My Father: Personal & Spiritual Reminiscences (1913) pp. 140-152 It is not often that a man…

Some General Reflections

Some General Reflections From W. T. Stead, The Story that Transformed the World or the Passion Play at Oberammergau 1890 (1890), ch VI. pp. 158-160 I shrink from setting down exactly what…