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W.T. Stead : nonconformist and newspaper prophet / Stewart J. Brown.
LIBRA PN5123.S7 B66 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Stewart J. (Stewart Jay), 1951- author.
- Series:
- Spiritual lives (Oxford University Press)
- Spiritual lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stead, W. T. (William Thomas), 1849-1912.
- Stead, W. T.
- Newspaper editors--Great Britain--Biography.
- Newspaper editors.
- Journalists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 226 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- A compelling biography of W.T. Stead (1849-1912) - a newspaper editor, author, social reformer, advocate for women rights, peace campaigner, spiritualist, and one of the best-known public figures in the late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
- Contents:
- 1 A Voice of the Nonconformist Conscience, 1849-80 p. 1
- 2 To Be a Christ: Striving for Righteousness at the Pall Mall Gazette, 1880-8 p. 41
- 3 The City of God and the Civic Church, 1888-94 p. 91
- 4 Spiritualism and the Other World, 1880-1912 p. 135
- 5 The Great Pacifist, 1894-1912 p. 165.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198832532
- 9780198832539
- OCLC:
- 1090980671
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