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Maiden Tribute
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Author : Grace Eckley
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2007-03-08
Maiden Tribute written by Grace Eckley and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Maiden Tribute: A Life of W. T. Stead This journalist who communicated with his Senior Partner instantaneously, whose ecumenical advance beyond his epoch still startles his readers, throughout his life retained his Whitmanesque individualism and rugged speech. W. T. Stead frequently scoffed at the Anglican Sunday prayers that instructed God how to direct the affairs of the world. If God did not comply, it was not for want of pious instruction. Anglicans were wanting, and most of his late Victorian-Edwardian world was Anglican. W. T. Stead (1849-1912) was a Nonconforrmist with and without the capital n. Had he been born with a wooden spoon in his mouth, it meant only that God needed his help to make the world silver. He never ceased to believe the world could be made silver, for mankind in general was anonymously, even though sluggishly, contributing to the infinite ascending spiral traced by the finger of God between the universe and the ideal. Clearly, the position of women in the 1870s was far from the ideal, remote from the privileges selfishly guarded by men. Taking a cue from his mother who campaigned against the Contagious Diseases Actswhich punished women but not men for transmitting syphilishe determined to bring women nearer the honors of Mary the Mother and Mary the Magdalen, for these two women stand out against the gloom of the past radiant as the angels of God, and yet the true ideals of the womanhood of the world. Such appeared implausible. Everywhere he saw in the streets wretched ruins of humanity, women stamped and crushed into devils by society . . . . And the children nursed in debauchery, suckled in crime, predestined to a life of misery and shame! Mrs. Josephine Butler already knew that Britains leadership would not assist: in the grandest house of the kind in Paris, are to be seen portraits of all the great men who had frequented themdiplomatists, generals, and English Lords . . . . The brothel-keeper put a cross underneath the portrait at each visit, to mark the number of visits made to the house by these great men! Before he visited London, the export of English girls for State-regulated prostitution in Brussels imposed upon Stead a sense that he was destined to write an Uncle Toms Cabin on The Slavery of Europe. The burden is greater than I can bear. But if it is ultimately to be laid on my back, God will strengthen me for it. If I have to write it I shall have to plunge into the depths of the social hell, and that is impossible outside a great city. Even high-minded seekers of justice found the social hell a place they could not venture into. Initiating research for The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon, Stead took counsel with civic powers Lord Carnarvon, John Morley, Arthur Balfour, Henry Labouchere among others, and Sir Charles Russell, who declined an invitation to see for himself because as leader of the English Bar he could not play the rle of a detective in a house of ill-fame. As the shocking series of four daily exposes neared its close, why others had not done Steads work was explained by Benjamin Scott, the City Chamberlain who had prompted Stead to take up the cause: We had not the ability or the opportunity that Stead possessed, and lacked the courage. Stead had begun the Maiden Tribute with a complaint against British society, that chivalry was dead and Christianity effete. Benjamin Waugh praised him after the fact: The spirit of both survives in you to-day. Stead accomplished his goal: passage of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, still in force today. Why the British sent him to jail for passing the first child protection law is graced with the word technicality. Branded both a saint and a filthy ex-convict, Stead continued to use his journalistic strength to achieve justice for citizens; in the 1890s he turned to internationalism. Lobbying for arbitration for settling international disputes, he crafted a memorial calling for li
The Maiden Tribute Of Modern Babylon
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Author : William Thomas Stead
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-29
The Maiden Tribute Of Modern Babylon written by William Thomas Stead and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-29 with Fiction categories.
The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon is a book by William T. Stead. A sensational piece of investigative journalism that described the widespread child sex trade thriving in London during the late 1800's.
The Maiden Tribute Of Modern Babylon
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Author : William Thoma Stead
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2015-05-12
The Maiden Tribute Of Modern Babylon written by William Thoma Stead and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-12 with categories.
"The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" from William Thoma Stead. William Thoma Stead, english newspaper editor who, as a pioneer of investigative journalism (1849-1912).
The Maiden Tribute
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Author : Charles Terrot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
The Maiden Tribute written by Charles Terrot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Prostitution categories.
The Maiden Tribute Of Modern Babylon
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
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England On Her Defence Being A Reply To The Maiden Tribute Of Modern Babylon By W T Stead
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Author : William McGlashan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
England On Her Defence Being A Reply To The Maiden Tribute Of Modern Babylon By W T Stead written by William McGlashan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with History categories.
Maiden Tribute Of Modern Babylon
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Author : Pall Mall Gazette. Secret Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
Maiden Tribute Of Modern Babylon written by Pall Mall Gazette. Secret Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Prostitution categories.
James Joyce Sexuality And Social Purity
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Author : Katherine Mullin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-07-10
James Joyce Sexuality And Social Purity written by Katherine Mullin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
In James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity, Katherine Mullin offers a richly detailed account of Joyce's lifelong battle against censorship. Through prodigious archival research, Mullin shows Joyce responding to Edwardian ideologies of social purity by accentuating the 'contentious' or 'offensive' elements in his work. Ulysses, A Portrait and Dubliners each meticulously subvert purity discourse. This important and highly original book will change the way Joyce is read and offers crucial insights into the sexual politics of Modernism.
Sex Scandal
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Author : William A. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1996
Sex Scandal written by William A. Cohen and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
"Never has the Victorian novel appeared so perverse as it does in these pages - and never has its perversity seemed so fundamental to its accomplishment. By viewing this fiction alongside the most alarming public scandals of the day, Cohen exposes both the scandalousness of this literature and its sexiness." "In narratives ranging from Great Expectations to the Boulton and Park sodomy scandal of 1870-71, from Eliot's and Trollope's novels about scandalous women to Oscar Wilde's writing and his trials for homosexuality. Cohen shows how, in each instance, sexuality appears couched in coded terms. He identifies an assortment of cunning narrative techniques used to insinuate sex into Victorian writing, demonstrating that even as such narratives air the scandalous subject, they emphasize its unspeakable nature. Written with an eye toward the sex scandals that still whet the appetites of consumers of news and novels, this work is suggestive about our own modes of imagining sexuality today and how we arrived at them."--BOOK JACKET.
Maiden Tribute
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Author : Grace Eckley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Maiden Tribute written by Grace Eckley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A biography of the English journalist, focusing on his work in promoting world peace and the mental sciences.