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  Pall Mall Gazette biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pall Mall is a street in London home to many gentleman's clubs, hence Thackeray's description of his imaginary newspaper in his novel The History of Pendennis :
We address ourselves to the higher circles of society: we care not to disown it--the Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen; its conductors speak to the classes in which they live and were born.
Under the ownership of George Smith from 1865 to 1880, with Frederick Greenwood as editor, the Pall Mall Gazette was a Conservative newspaper.
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 Pall Mall Gazette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pall Mall Gazette was an evening newpaper founded in London February 7, 1865.
In 1921 The Globe merged into the Pall Mall Gazette, which itself was absorbed into the Evening Standard in 1923.
Pall Mall is a street in London home to many gentleman's clubs, hence Thackeray's description of his imaginary newspaper in his novel The History of Pendennis:
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 Pall Mall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pall Mall, a famous street in central London
Pall mall, a ball game played in 16th and 17th centuries
Pall Mall, a small town in Tennessee, USA
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 §16. The Penny evening papers. IV. The Growth of Journalism. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge ...
The Pall Mall Gazette obtained larger renown for its philosophic statesmanship.
Greenwood, undoubtedly, was one of the great editors of the century, revising the work of his contributors, suggesting topics and their treatment and, with a masterly hand, adding finishing touches.
At the same time, The Westminster Gazette was launched, which was conducted on much the same lines as those of the liberal Pall Mall Gazette had been, and, during several years, was the only London penny paper supporting the liberal party.
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 Pall Mall Gazette -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Pall Mall Gazette was an evening newpaper founded in (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London February 7 1865.
The Pall Mall Gazette takes the name of an imaginary newpaper conceived by (English writer (born in India) (1811-1863)) William Makepeace Thackeray.
A large number of well-known writers contributed to the Pall Mall Gazette over the years, for example (British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950)) George Bernard Shaw got his first journalistic job writing for the paper.
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 Pall Mall Gazette (1912) Coal Strike news billboard - 23 March 1912
Pall Mall Gazette (1912) Coal Strike news billboard - 23 March 1912
Advert for the Pall Mall Gazette in March 1912, suggesting that miners are "flmailing the nation" (with obvious pun intended) by failing to work pits in their demand for better pay.
If the coal strike had continued a few days longer, the Titanic would unlikely have been able to sail as scheduled on April 10.
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 FREDERICK GREENWOOD - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK GREENWOOD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was characteristic of Greenwood that he declined to publish the news of the purchase of the shares in the Pall Mall before the official announcement was made.
Early in 1880 the Pall Mall changed owners, and the new proprietor required it to support Liberal policy.
Greenwood at once resigned his editorship, but in May a new paper, the St Jamess Gazette, was started for him by Mr Henry Hucks Gibbs (afterwards Lord Aldenham), and Greenwood proceeded to carry on in it the tradition which he had established in the Pall Mall.
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He took over the editorship of the Pall Mall Gazette at a time when its circulation certainly needed a boost.
This was rapidly achieved by the publication - in the Gazette - of a piece by Stead himself entitled "A Maiden Tribute to the Modern Babylon".
Of course the Pall Mall Gazette sold like hot cakes and Mr Stead became a speaker much in demand at all kinds of gatherings - especially those of a religious revival variety which needed a little "spicing up".
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 Washington Times (1912) William T. Stead Known as Famous Newspaper Man - 16 April 1912
Here he remained until 1880, when he was called to become assistant editor under John Morley, of the Pall Mall Gazette.
It was as editor of the Pall Mall Gazette that he introduced American newspaper methods in England.
Stead became known as a vigorous oponent [sic] of social evils, a steadfast advocate of international peace, and a patriotic apologist of Russia.
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 The Astors: Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He bought the Pall Mall Gazette, established the Pall Mall Magazine - the Quadrant of its day - and funded the Liberal Party, being rewarded with a peerage as baron of Hever Castle in 1916 and viscount in 1917, the latter elevation reportedly having involved a £1 million donation to the Lloyd George slush fund.
The monthly Pall Mall Magazine - apparently modelled on The Strand - was launched in 1893, merging with Nash's Magazine under the control of Hearst in 1914 and lingering until 1937 as Nash's Pall Mall Magazine.
For the Pall Mall Gazette and Stead see John Scott's The Story of the Pall Mall Gazette, of its first editor Frederick Greenwood and of its Founder George Murray Smith (London: Oxford Uni Press 1950) and Raymond Schultz' Crusader in Babylon: WT Stead and the Pall Mall Gazette (Lincoln: Uni of Nebraska 1972).
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 Journalists and Newspapers Reference, Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pall Mall Gazette Abstract: Founded in February, 1865 as an evening newspaper, the original idea was to digest the news from the morning papers and to publish substantial articles on political and social questions.
In 1883 the Pall Mall Gazette carried a series of articles on the subject of child prostitution.
William Stead This religious non-conformist who edited the Northern Echo and the Pall Mall Review supported the trade union movement, condemned the international arms race as well as child prostitution.
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 Grant Allen's Non-fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But his many dozens of contributions to the dailies and weeklies – particularly to the Daily News in the late 70s and the Pall Mall Gazette and the St James's Gazette in the early 80s – are another matter.
But in rural America the whole existence of the people rolls on for ever in one unvaried and unlovely round, and all their thoughts, beliefs, and aspirations are cast in one monotonous mould.' A good deal more on the same lines.
Pall Mall Gazette, 34 (17 Sep 1881), 11.
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 Gordon, the Government and the "Pall Mall Gazette." A Retrospect. : [GORDON, (General Charles George)]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Gordon, the Government and the "Pall Mall Gazette." A Retrospect.
we are under no delusion as to the indifference of the general public to all controversies of this nature, we venture to place in a convenient and accessible from the facts of the case between Gordon, the Government, and the Pall Mall Gazette.
It was the publication of the "interview" with Gordon in the magazine, and Stead's editorializing on the subject, that prompted the Government to disptach the General to the Sudan.
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 SIR LESLIE STEPHEN - LoveToKnow Article on SIR LESLIE STEPHEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He has recounted the experiences of a resident fellow at that period in a delightful chapter in his Life of Fawcctt as well as in some less formal Sketches from Cambridge: By a Don (1865).
These sketches were reprinted from the Pall Mall Gazette, to the proprietor of which, George Smith, he had been introduced by his brother (Sir) James Fitzjames Stephen.
In the meantime (after a visit to America, where he formed lasting friendships with Lowell and Eliot Norton) he settled in London, and wrote largely, not only for the Pall Mall Gazette and the Saturday Review, but also for Fraser, Macmillan, the Fortnightly and other periodicals.
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 Pioneers and Packets
Each edited the Pall Mall Gazette, and each had a spell in prison.
Each edited the Pall Mall Gazette, and each had a spell in prison - Shandon for debt, and Stead for procuring a young girl for prostitution, in the course of compiling a newspaper exposé proving such things could happen.
The original Pall Mall Gazette was invented by Thackeray for his novel Pendennis.
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Believing that the current laws did not safeguard young girls from sexual exploitation, the Pall Mall Gazette's editor and investigative reporter, W.T. Stead, published a series of articles which purported to uncover child prostitution and white slavery rings.
The Times was apparently not alone for the Pall Mall Gazette also reported a significant increase in assaults during this same period.
While the evidence reported to the newspaper suggests that these men did in fact commit sexual offenses, the fact that so few men from the other sectors of British society were brought to trial may stem from the reluctance of a grand jury to indict "respectable" gentlemen.
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 Notes on the War. Engels 1870-71   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Like other great men in bad luck, Louis Napoleon appears aware that he owes the public an explanation of the causes which led him, much against his will, from Saarbrücken to Sedan; and consequently we have now been put in possession of what professes to be this explanation of his.
As there is no evidence, either external or internal, to fix any suspicion of spuriousness upon the document, but rather to the contrary, we take it, for the present, to be genuine.
Louis Napoleon informs us that he was perfectly aware of the great numerical superiority of the Germans; that he hoped to counteract it by a rapid invasion of Southern Germany in order to compel that country to remain neutral, and to secure, by a first success, the alliance of Austria and Italy.
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 EDWARD DUTTON COOK - LoveToKnow Article on EDWARD DUTTON COOK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He was educated at Kings College school, London, and, after four years in his fathers office, obtained a situation in the London office of a railway company, at first utilizing only his spare time in literary work, but eventually devoting himself entirely to literature.
He was dramatic critic of the Pall Mall Gazette from 1867 to 1875, and of the World from 1875 till his death.
He also wrote freely on art topics, and was the author of several novels.
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 William Stead
Stead moved to London in 1880 where John Morley employed him as a journalist on the Pall Mall Gazette.
The Pall Mall Gazette featured banner headlines, shorter paragraphs in a readable style, with considerable use of illustrations, diagrams and maps to break up the text.
In September, William Stead and five others were charged with unlawfully kidnapping a minor and committed for trial at the Old Bailey.
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n Exchange: 1908 Letters to the Pall Mall Gazette Editor is a collection of an editorial column, letters sent to the Gazette Editor between January 1908 and September 1908, and a short a book excerpt -- all on tuberculosis and deep breathing exercises.
The article highlights Alexander's participation in a lively discussion that occurred on the editorial pages of one of London's great evening papers, the Pall Mall Gazette, where Oscar Wilde and GB Shaw made regular contributions.
We are most pleased to offer Rosslyn McLeod's pioneering 1987 Alexander Review article "F.M. - Critiques, 'Consumption' and Commentaries." Australian ATed teacher, musician, and historical researcher McLeod provides a glimpse of the young Alexander on the Australia stage -- interacting with audiences, fellow performers, and reviewers.
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 Casebook: Jack the Ripper - El Universal - 31 October 1890
It having been announced by the English newspapers that the London police have redoubled their precautions in the Whitechapel district, the Pall Mall Gazette sent one of its editors to examine the place where there took place the series of crimes which terrified all Europe without success in capturing the killer.
It is certain that if Jack the Ripper had the whim to return to his bloody task it would be no obstacle to him to know that a police post has been sited near there and with complete peace of mind he could do whatever he wanted.
The newspaperman from the Pall Mall Gazette had the proof of this.
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 Grant Allen: Secondary Materials on Grant Allen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pall Mall Gazette, 40 (5 Aug 1884), 5.
There is not a character in the book which fails to interest us, and the writing is, of its kind, faultless’.
Pall Mall Gazette, 43 (4 Mar 1886), 5.
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 W.T.Stead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He was a remarkable man. Born in 1849, the son of a Congregational minister living in a little village on the Tyne, he received, when quite a lad, a powerful spiritual awakening, the effect of which continued with him all his life.
At eighteen, while working as a clerk in Newcastle, he began writing to the newspapers, and at twenty-three was editor of 'The Northern Echo', a clever little daily published at Darlington.
Shortly afterwards he used his influence with John Morley - now Viscount Morley who was then editor, and together they lent the powerful influence of 'The Pall Mall' to make.known and put down the disgraceful violence which at that time assailed us in many parts of the country.
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Along Pall Mall the taxi in which she was seated gained considerably, but in the Park and along the Bird Cage Walk both the other taxies, risking the police regulations, drew almost alongside.
She never yapped for yapping's sake, but her shrill, high bark was known all along the Mall, and other men's terriers ki-yied in reply, and bullock-drivers looked over their shoulders and gave us the road with a grin.
Private Miles' account, that he dropped his rifle and took to his heels down the Mall because on looking up he had suddenly seen the devil between him and the moon, was not accepted by the Court, and yet it may have a direct bearing upon the point at issue.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - pall-mall
Croquet is a revival of an older game called pall mall that was played in England in the 17th century.
The Press (quotations): Press: The Pall Mall Gazette is…
The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.
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 Professor Huxley and the Spiritualists (1889)
Conway relates "the Fox women" to have confessed their forty years’ hoax the Pall Mall Gazette reported the chief of them, Mrs.
Jackson, to have been one of a party who has rented Carlyle’s house at Chelsea,, and described a séance at which he was believed to be evolved.
S.–Unless you object, I shall hold myself free to use your letter as a public communication.
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 Titanic: Stead, William Thomas
In 1880 he went to London as assistant editor of the Pall Mall Gazette under John Morley, later Viscount Morley.
When Morley went into Parliament, Stead succeeded him as editor and made of the Pall Mall Gazette a sprightly and unconventional journal.
He introduced such modern journalistic techniques as the use of illustrations.
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