William Thomas Stead - Revision history

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	* '''''The United States of Europe on the Eve of the Parliament of Peace'''''. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co, 1899. Available at [https://archive.org/details/unitedstateseur00steagoog Internet Archive].		* '''''The United States of Europe on the Eve of the Parliament of Peace'''''. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co, 1899. Available at [https://archive.org/details/unitedstateseur00steagoog Internet Archive].
	* '''''The M. P. for Russia: reminiscences & correspondence of Madame Olga Novikoff''''', ed. by W. T. Stead. Putnam, 1909. Available at [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006076750 Hathitrust].		* '''''The M. P. for Russia: reminiscences & correspondence of Madame Olga Novikoff''''', ed. by W. T. Stead. Putnam, 1909. Available at [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006076750 Hathitrust].
			* '''''Letters from Julia, or Light from the Borderland'''''.

	== Online resources ==		== Online resources ==

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	*[http://www.attackingthedevil.co.uk# W. T. Stead Resource Site]		*[http://www.attackingthedevil.co.uk# W. T. Stead Resource Site]
	*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomas_Stead# William Thomas Stead] at Wikipedia		*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomas_Stead# William Thomas Stead] at Wikipedia
			* [https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/stead-william-t Stead, William T.] in Theosophy World
	* [http://www.khaldea.com/charts/williamtstead.shtml Astrological chart]		* [http://www.khaldea.com/charts/williamtstead.shtml Astrological chart]

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	* '''''Truth about Russia'''''. London: Cassell & Co, 1888. Available at [https://archive.org/details/truthaboutrussia00stea Internet Archive].		* '''''Truth about Russia'''''. London: Cassell & Co, 1888. Available at [https://archive.org/details/truthaboutrussia00stea Internet Archive].
	* '''''The United States of Europe on the Eve of the Parliament of Peace'''''. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co, 1899. Available at [https://archive.org/details/unitedstateseur00steagoog Internet Archive].		* '''''The United States of Europe on the Eve of the Parliament of Peace'''''. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co, 1899. Available at [https://archive.org/details/unitedstateseur00steagoog Internet Archive].
			* '''''The M. P. for Russia: reminiscences & correspondence of Madame Olga Novikoff''''', ed. by W. T. Stead. Putnam, 1909. Available at [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006076750 Hathitrust].

	== Online resources ==		== Online resources ==

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Correspondence with H. P. Blavatsky

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	== Correspondence with H. P. Blavatsky ==		== Correspondence with H. P. Blavatsky ==
			[[File:WT Stead by EH Mills 1905.png\|200px\|right\|thumb\|Stead in 1905, by E. H. Mills]]
	In 1888, the ''Pall Mall Gazette'' printed an article to which Madame Blavatsky responded angrily. Stead sent her a personal note:		In 1888, the ''Pall Mall Gazette'' printed an article to which Madame Blavatsky responded angrily. Stead sent her a personal note:
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Correspondence with H. P. Blavatsky

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	She wrote back to explain what phrases had offended her in the ''Gazette'', and said,		She wrote back to explain what phrases had offended her in the ''Gazette'', and said,
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	It is indeed kind, <u>very</u> kind of you to have written to me such a letter and I feel deeply grateful. Without compliment I believe you to be the <u>redeeming</u> feature in the picture gallery of English Editors... Let me offer you -- as a peace offering, my new book [[The Key to Theosophy (book)\|"The Key to Theosophy."]] I do not ask you to review, <u>but to read it</u>; for this work, at least, you will understand and metaphysics is absent from it.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky letter to W. T. Stead. Undated.</ref>		It is indeed kind, <u>very</u> kind of you to have written to me such a letter and I feel deeply grateful. Without compliment I believe you to be the <u>redeeming</u> feature in the picture gallery of English Editors... Let me offer you -- as a peace offering, my new book [[The Key to Theosophy (book)\|"The Key to Theosophy."]] I do not ask you to review, <u>but to read it</u>; for this work, at least, you will understand and metaphysics is absent from it.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky letter to W. T. Stead. Undated, but probably December 1888 or early 1889, during the period when Blavatsky was corresponding with Stead.</ref>
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	== Professional career ==		== Professional career ==
	[[File:William T Stead.jpg\|230px\|right\|thumb\|William T. Stead]]		[[File:William T Stead.jpg\|230px\|right\|thumb\|William T. Stead]]
	W. T. Stead started out his career in journalism in 1871 by founding and editing the Darlington ''Northern Echo'' for nine years. He experienced several strong premonitions, and one such experience, on [[January 1]], 1880, made him believe that he would find a new position in London, which seemed unlikely at the time.<ref>Estelle W. Stead, ''My Father'' (London, 1913), 88-91.</ref><ref>Walter Franklin Prince, ''Noted Witnesses for Psychic Occurrences'' (New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1963), 224-226.</ref> However, later that year he began assisting John Morley in editing the ''Pall Mall ~~Gazzette~~'' in London for three years, prior to assuming its sole editorship (1883-90). After this he inaugurated the ''Review of Reviews'' (1890-1912). From 1893-1897 he also produced the [[Spiritualism\|spiritualist]] magazine ''Borderland''.		W. T. Stead started out his career in journalism in 1871 by founding and editing the Darlington ''Northern Echo'' for nine years. He experienced several strong premonitions, and one such experience, on [[January 1]], 1880, made him believe that he would find a new position in London, which seemed unlikely at the time.<ref>Estelle W. Stead, ''My Father'' (London, 1913), 88-91.</ref><ref>Walter Franklin Prince, ''Noted Witnesses for Psychic Occurrences'' (New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1963), 224-226.</ref> However, later that year he began assisting John Morley in editing the ''Pall Mall Gazette'' in London for three years, prior to assuming its sole editorship (1883-90). After this he inaugurated the '''''Review of Reviews''''' (1890-1912). From 1893-1897 he also produced the [[Spiritualism\|spiritualist]] magazine '''''Borderland'''''.

	His radical views and social activism often triggered opposition. As editor of the ''PMG'' he orchestrated an exposé based on his actual experience of trying to buy a child whose mother had sold for prostitution. He was briefly jailed for this exposé.		His radical views and social activism often triggered opposition. As editor of the ''PMG'' he orchestrated an exposé based on his actual experience of trying to buy a child whose mother had sold for prostitution. He was briefly jailed for this exposé.
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	== Correspondence with H. P. Blavatsky ==		== Correspondence with H. P. Blavatsky ==

	In 1888, the ''Pall Mall Gazette'' printed an article to which ~~HPB~~ responded angrily. Stead sent her a personal note:		In 1888, the ''Pall Mall Gazette'' printed an article to which Madame Blavatsky responded angrily. Stead sent her a personal note:
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	You are a very great woman and I do not think that anyone but yourself (either man or woman) could have written the <u>Secret Doctrine</u>, nor do I feel competent, from the depths of my ignorance, even to express an opinion upon its extraordinary contents... I do not profess to understand you, for you inhabit space of more dimensions than I can even conceive, but I am not so great a fool as to be unable to see that you have a genius quite transcendent, and an extraordinary aptitude for both literature and propagandism, which the rest of your fellow-creatures may well envy... Thank you much for the promise of your second volume. May I, in return, ask you to accept a copy of my book, "Truth about Russia," which I hope will be issued next week? -- Hoping that I shall have the pleasure of seeing you before long.<ref>William T. Stead letter to H. P. Blavatsky. December 8, 1888.</ref>		You are a very great woman and I do not think that anyone but yourself (either man or woman) could have written the [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|<u>Secret Doctrine</u>]], nor do I feel competent, from the depths of my ignorance, even to express an opinion upon its extraordinary contents... I do not profess to understand you, for you inhabit space of more dimensions than I can even conceive, but I am not so great a fool as to be unable to see that you have a genius quite transcendent, and an extraordinary aptitude for both literature and propagandism, which the rest of your fellow-creatures may well envy... Thank you much for the promise of your second volume. May I, in return, ask you to accept a copy of my book, "Truth about Russia," which I hope will be issued next week? -- Hoping that I shall have the pleasure of seeing you before long.<ref>William T. Stead letter to H. P. Blavatsky. December 8, 1888.</ref>
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	She wrote back to explain what phrases had offended her in the ''Gazette'', and said,		She wrote back to explain what phrases had offended her in the ''Gazette'', and said,
	<blockquote>		<blockquote>
	It is indeed kind, <u>very</u> kind of you to have written to me such a letter and I feel deeply grateful. Without compliment I believe you to be the <u>redeeming</u> feature in the picture gallery of English Editors... Let me offer you -- as a peace offering, my new book "The Key to Theosophy." I do not ask you to review, <u>but to read it</u>; for this work, at least, you will understand and metaphysics is absent from it.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky letter to W. T. Stead. Undated.</ref>		It is indeed kind, <u>very</u> kind of you to have written to me such a letter and I feel deeply grateful. Without compliment I believe you to be the <u>redeeming</u> feature in the picture gallery of English Editors... Let me offer you -- as a peace offering, my new book [[The Key to Theosophy (book)\|"The Key to Theosophy."]] I do not ask you to review, <u>but to read it</u>; for this work, at least, you will understand and metaphysics is absent from it.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky letter to W. T. Stead. Undated.</ref>
	</blockquote>		</blockquote>

	== Death ==		== Death ==

	Stead boarded the RMS ''Titanic'' for a visit to the United States to take part in a peace congress at Carnegie Hall at the request of William Howard Taft, and died on [[April 15]], 1912, when it sank. It is reported that after the ship struck the iceberg, Stead helped several women and children into the lifeboats, in an act "typical of his generosity, courage, and humanity", and gave his life jacket to another passenger. Stead had often claimed that he would die from either lynching or drowning.<ref>Joseph O. Baylen, 'Stead, William Thomas (1849–1912)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.</ref>		Stead boarded the '''RMS ''Titanic''''' for a visit to the United States to take part in a peace congress at Carnegie Hall at the request of William Howard Taft, and died on [[April 15]], 1912, when it sank. It is reported that after the ship struck the iceberg, Stead helped several women and children into the lifeboats, in an act "typical of his generosity, courage, and humanity", and gave his life jacket to another passenger. Stead had often claimed that he would die from either lynching or drowning.<ref>Joseph O. Baylen, 'Stead, William Thomas (1849–1912)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.</ref>

	A later sighting of Stead, by survivor Philip Mock, had him clinging to a raft with John Jacob Astor IV. "Their feet became frozen," reported Mock, "and they were compelled to release their hold. Both were drowned." William Stead's body was not recovered.<ref>See [http://www.attackingthedevil.co.uk/titanic/worcester.php# Stead and Astor Cling to Raft] at W.T. Stead Resource Site</ref>		A later sighting of Stead, by survivor Philip Mock, had him clinging to a raft with John Jacob Astor IV. "Their feet became frozen," reported Mock, "and they were compelled to release their hold. Both were drowned." William Stead's body was not recovered.<ref>See [http://www.attackingthedevil.co.uk/titanic/worcester.php# Stead and Astor Cling to Raft] at W.T. Stead Resource Site</ref>
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	There was a widely held belief that he was due to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize that same year.		There was a widely held belief that he was due to be awarded the '''Nobel Peace Prize''' that same year.

	== Writings ==		== Writings ==

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	His radical views and social activism often triggered opposition. As editor of the ''PMG'' he orchestrated an exposé based on his actual experience of trying to buy a child whose mother had sold for prostitution. He was briefly jailed for this exposé.		His radical views and social activism often triggered opposition. As editor of the ''PMG'' he orchestrated an exposé based on his actual experience of trying to buy a child whose mother had sold for prostitution. He was briefly jailed for this exposé.

	He was considered a likely recipient of the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize before he died on board the Titanic.		He was considered a likely recipient of the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize before he died on board the RMS ''Titanic''.

	== Correspondence with H. P. Blavatsky ==		== Correspondence with H. P. Blavatsky ==

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Online resources

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	*[http://www.attackingthedevil.co.uk# W. T. Stead Resource Site]		*[http://www.attackingthedevil.co.uk# W. T. Stead Resource Site]
	*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomas_Stead# William Thomas Stead] at Wikipedia		*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomas_Stead# William Thomas Stead] at Wikipedia
			* [http://www.khaldea.com/charts/williamtstead.shtml Astrological chart]

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