Muckraker
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Muckraker

The Scandalous Life and Times of W. T. Stead, Britain's First Investigative Journalist

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Muckraker

The Scandalous Life and Times of W. T. Stead, Britain's First Investigative Journalist

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A major work by a brilliant young biographer, Muckraker details the tenacity and verve of one of Victorian Britain's most compelling characters. Credited with pioneering investigative reporting, W. T. Stead made a career of 'muckraking': revealing horrific practices in the hope of shocking authorities into reform. As the editor of the Northern Echo, he won the admiration of the Liberal statesman William Gladstone for his fierce denunciation of the Conservative government; at the helm of London's most ininfuential evening paper, the Pall Mall Gazette, he launched the career-defining Maiden Tribute campaign. To expose the scandal of child prostitution, Stead abducted thirteen-year-old Eliza Armstrong (thought by many to be the inspiration behind Eliza Doolittle, from friend George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion), thrusting him into a life of notoriety. Labelled a madman in later life for dabbling in the occult, W. T. Stead conducted his life with an invincible zeal right up until his tragic demise aboard the Titanic. Revealing a man full of curious eccentricities, W. Sydney Robinson charts the remarkable rise and fall of a true Fleet Street legend in this enthralling biography.

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Publisher
The Robson Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9781849543880
Topic
History
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Epigraph
  4. CONTENTS
  5. FOREWORD
  6. PREFACE
  7. CHAPTER 1: QUEER BILL, 1849–63
  8. CHAPTER 2: TO BE AN EDITOR!
  9. CHAPTER 3: ATTACKING THE DEVIL, 1871–80
  10. CHAPTER 4: MORLEY’S APPRENTICE
  11. CHAPTER 5: RUNNING THE EMPIRE
  12. CHAPTER 6: BABYLON – REVEALED!
  13. CHAPTER 7: IN THE DOCK
  14. CHAPTER 8: RIGHTEOUS IMPRISONMENT
  15. CHAPTER 9: LAST YEARS AT NORTHUMB ERLAND STREET, 1886–89
  16. CHAPTER 10: VATICAN, LONDON
  17. CHAPTER 11: MY LOVELY LITTLE DAISY WIFE
  18. CHAPTER 12: DON’T DEMAND A CHAPERONE
  19. CHAPTER 13: IF CHRIST CAME TO CHICAGO
  20. CHAPTER 14: SHALL I SLAY MY BROTHER BOER?
  21. CHAPTER 15: GRANDPA STEAD, 1902–12
  22. EPILOGUE
  23. NOTES
  24. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  25. INDEX
  26. Copyright