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mirrored Stead's own over-active imagination and was written almost exclusively by him. Along with the dozens of magazine and book reviews it contained, it also included a running commentary of world events, entitled "The Progress of the World", and a character sketch of a current "celebrity". The
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is one of the best primary sources on American reform between 1890 and 1920, providing not only a panoramic view of the range of reformers' interests, but also the ties between British and American progressives. By volume 3, however, its style had departed significantly from that of its British
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first issue was an instant success, and opened with numerous facsimiled welcome messages which Stead had courted from various dignitaries of the time. However, Stead's relationship with Newnes came under strain when the latter strongly objected to Stead's scathing character sketch of
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after his own image. With article titles such as "Baby-killing as an Investment" and "Ought Mrs. Maybrick to be Tortured to Death?", Stead showed he had lost none of the sledge hammer force of his journalistic days. He also involved the
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ran simultaneously alongside its British counterpart. As such, it represented the views and concerns of participants in the trans-Atlantic culture of progressive reform so brilliantly discussed in Daniel T. Rodgers's
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Perhaps seeing this discord as a sign of things to come, Newnes severed ties, exclaiming that the whole venture was "turning his hair grey". After buying out Newnes's share, Stead shaped the
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s auspices. However, in spite of such apparent successes, without the business-like Newnes to guide him, Stead frequently drove the
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and received his doctorate in government at Johns Hopkins in 1884. Declining an appointment at Cornell, Shaw became editor of the
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The Penny Poets (The Masterpiece Library: Series I) ("Review of Reviews" Office; Stead's Publishing House) – Book Series List
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Stead was a career journalist who was drawn into reform politics in the 1880s, crusading through for such causes as
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for girls from thirteen to sixteen, similar to "statutory rape" laws in the United States. As editor of the London
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somehow limped on, buoyed up by a narrow but devoted subscription base. But, following the loss of Stead in the
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in social work, setting up the "Association of Helpers" and even an adoption agency called "The Baby Exchange".
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In 1891–92, Stead founded the equally successful American and Australian editions of the
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was a noted family of monthly journals founded in 1890–1893 by British reform journalist
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to death's door, despite the best efforts of his business manager, Edwin H. Stout.
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Shaw was part of the first generation of academic reformers, which included
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was edited by the American academic, journalist, and reformer,
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and a widely published author of books on municipal reform.
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and devoted one page to its promulgation in every issue.
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Stead was an early supporter and speaker of the language
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represented Stead's dream of a global publishing empire.
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Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age
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William Thomas Stead
British-Russian friendship
Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon
Pall Mall Gazette
Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885
consent age
feminist
RMS Titanic
W. T. Stead
Sir George Newnes
Tit-Bits
Sir George Newnes
The Times
Esperanto
Boer War
Titanic disaster
Lovat Dickson
Albert Shaw

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