Stead by his Peers Works & Memoirs of W.T. Stead
"Sentence was pronounced, a buzz of eager
conversation filled the crowded court. Friends were pressing round the
dock, where we had spent so many exciting days, to say good-bye. All was
movement—a feverish murmur of many voices. The long tension had
given way, last words were being hurriedly exchanged—" Good-bye,
good-bye, God bless you!" "I'd rather be in your place than
in that of your judge"—it was Mr. Waugh who said that, although
I did not know his voice at the time from other voices rising from below.
"Once more, good-bye." And waving my hand to the excited throng
I descended the steps, with a confused vision of horse-hair wigs, eager
faces, and a patch of scarlet still lingering on my retina. Down we went,
Jacques and I—Rebecca and Mdme. Mourez had preceded us—and
we were prisoners. We had been below for a few minutes every day of the
trial, but now we went further afield. Newgate is a deserted gaol. The
long corridors, like combs of empty cells, stand silent as the grave.
As we were marched down passages and through one iron gate after another,
I experienced my first feel of a gaol. Those who have not been in prison
will understand it when they in their turn receive sentence of imprisonment.
It is a feel of stone and iron, hard and cold, and, when, as in Newgate,
the prison is empty, there is added the chill and silence of the grave.."
W.T. Stead, My First Imprisonment
W.T. Stead, My First Imprisonment
Memoirs
• My Father (1884) • Some General Reflections (1890) • Stead’s Reminiscences of the "Maiden Tribute" Campaign (undated) • Stead on his Childhood & Early Career (1893) • Stead on his Editorship of the Northern Echo (1893) • The Salvation Army's Arrival in Darlington in 1879 (1893) • Stead on Children & Life at Grainey Hill (1893)
Texts
• The Magazinctum (1867) • Chinese Gordon (1884) • Government by Journalism (1886) • The Future of Journalism (1886) • My First Imprisonment (1886) • Stead on being "a Christ" (1894) • Europa (1899) • "I Wish I were King" (1902) • "Stead on American Journalism (1902) • Mr. Kier Hardie M.P (1905) • The Welsh Revival (1905)
• The M.P. for Russia Vol. I • The M.P. for Russia Vol. II • The Americanisation of the World • The Truth about Russia • The Passion Play at Ober Ammergau • Real Ghost Stories • If Christ Came to Chicago • The United States of Europe • Satan's Invisible World Displayed • The Pope and the New Era • Hymns that have Helped • Last Will & Testament of Cecil Rhodes • Coming Men on Coming Questions • The Splendid Paupers
