Stead's best-known novel, with the ironic title The Man Who Loved Children, is largely based on her own childhood, and was first published in 1940.

Stead's Letty Fox: Her Luck, often regarded as an equally fine novel, was officially banned in Australia for several years because it was considered amoral and salacious.

Anne was no doubt responsible for Stead's reasonable attempt at conveying the local accent.

" Overall, in Stead's opinion, with Thunderball " the mixture, exotic as ever, generates an extravagant and exhilarating tale and Bond connoisseurs will be glad to have it.

* William Thomas Stead's series of articles in 1885, The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon regarding child prostitution in Victorian London, resulted in the Eliza Armstrong case.

The 1986 drama For Love Alone, set in the 1930s and based on Christina Stead's 1945 best-seller novel of the same name, marked her debut in film.

In the 19th century, the sensational journalism of W. T. Stead's The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon ( 1885 ) about the procuring of underage girls into the brothels of Victorian London provided a stimulus for the erotic imagination.

Stead's account was widely translated and the revelation of " padded rooms for the purpose of stifling the cries of the tortured victims of lust and brutality " and the symbolic figure of " The Minotaur of London " confirmed European observers worst imaginings about " Le Sadisme anglais " and inspired erotic writers to write of similar scenes set in London or involving sadistic English gentlemen.

The third subspecies, X. l. variabilis or Stead's Bushwren, was found on Stewart Island / Rakiura and nearby islands.

William Thomas Stead's editorship from 1883 to 1889 saw the paper cover such subjects as child prostitution ; their campaign helped get the government to increase the age of consent from 12 to 16 in 1885.

The first time a source refers to the superiority of one county is in respect of a match between Edward Stead's XI and Sir William Gage's XI at Penshurst Park in August 1728.

The source states that ( Stead's victory over Sir William Gage's XI ) was the third time this summer that the Kent men have been too expert for those of Sussex.

He viewed this question as traditional within Christianity and likely drew some inspiration from William T. Stead's If Christ came to Chicago!

The British sought efficiency as the solution, and after the publication of Alfred Stead's 1906 book Great Japan: A Study of National Efficiency, pundits in Britain looked to Japan for lessons.

He would go on to score again for the Blades in the next match against his former club Blackburn Rovers where Stead's muted celebration further endeared him to the Rovers fans, who remained grateful for the considerable contribution he had made during the relegation scrap in 2004.

Stead was linked with a move to Blackpool in July 2010, with Ipswich accepting a fee of 250k, but Blackpool refused to match Stead's £ 12, 000-a-week wages.

While many denounced Stead's exposé, it did what it was intended to do: it prompted Parliament to resume the debate over the Criminal Law Amendment Bill on 9 July 1885.

However, many members of Parliament, already infuriated by Stead's tactics, sought to obstruct any alterations to the laws.

Although Mrs. Butler had no problem with Rebecca meeting Stead, she did not know Stead's reason for doing so.

In the latter part of 2005, Beattie faced potentially his most serious political crisis: the revelations and inquiries into Queensland Health and the Bundaberg public hospital after Jayant Patel, an Indian-born surgeon who was struck off the register in the United States for malpractice, performed several botched operations in the hospital, some of which resulted in death, and then fled the country to the US.

Pope Urban VIII did make a public statement about private revelations and their dissemination in the Catholic Church in his Constitution, Sanctissimus Dominus Noster of 13 March 1625.

However, the damaging information on these politicians was eventually made public and political leaders like President Ulysses Grant feared that the revelations might harm their prospects in the upcoming elections.

Following the 1945 defection of Soviet cipher clerk, Igor Gouzenko and his revelations of espionage, the RCMP Security Service implemented measures to screen out " subversive " elements from the public sector.

The revelations of this film helped alert the British public to the horror of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, which began in 1975.

After Profumo's ministerial career ended in disgrace in 1963, following revelations he had lied to the House of Commons about his affair with Christine Keeler, she stood by him, and they worked together for charity for the remainder of her life, though she did miss their more public life.

For various reasons, mostly related to the unexpected consequences of the invasion, as well as revelations of misinformation provided by US authorities, the US public ’ s perspective on its government ’ s choice to initiate an offensive is increasingly negative.

However, contractors working on the renovations were forced to sign the Official Secrets Act in order to avoid revelations of the expenditure leaking out to the public.

In a number of instances, the revelations of muckraking journalists led to public outcry, governmental and legal investigations, and, in some cases, legislation was enacted to address the issues the writers ' identified, such as harmful social conditions ; pollution ; food and product safety standards ; sexual harassment ; unfair labor practices ; fraud ; and other matters.

The most damaging revelations in the papers revealed that four administrations, from Truman to Johnson, had misled the public regarding their intentions.

In the true sense of the word, according to the axioms established above for the reliability of historical tradition, there can be only assertion of real prophecy when the divine revelations apply to important public matters ; while those revelations which pertain to less important matters, or even to the personal affairs of a single individual, can not be classed under this head ( ib.

Press and public interest increased with Cook's revelations that he had paid a large sum of money to Bianchi in the hopes of forestalling a lawsuit, and had spent thousands of dollars each month on internet pornography.

For a decade following these public revelations, he declined to give any response to concerns from within the movement that he had misused his position as a Buddhist teacher to sexually exploit young men.

Enacted in 1959 after revelations of corruption and undemocratic practices in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, International Longshoremen's Association, United Mine Workers and other unions received wide public attention, the Act requires unions to hold secret elections for local union offices on a regular basis and provides for review by the United States Department of Labor of union members ' claims of improper election activity.

Alcock increased his public profile in 2003, after chairing a committee which forced privacy commissioner George Radwanski to resign from office after revelations of lax spending habits.

It was through these public revelations that Southern nations around the world wanted rules to govern the global economy.

Laws resigned as Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 29 May 2010, stating that he could not carry on working on the Comprehensive Spending Review while dealing with the private and public implications of the revelations.

The Way of the World debuted at number 3 on the New York Times bestseller list, but some remarked that its revelations did not produce the outrage or scandal that would seem to attend a White House-run disinformation campaign aimed at U. S. public opinion.

Her revelations led to the Martin government establishing the Gomery Commission to conduct a public inquiry and file a report on the matter.

Igor Gouzenko's revelations of systematic Soviet espionage in the West shocked both the public and world governments.

The slow pace of the trial and the disturbing revelations of more of Dutroux's victims created public outrage.

His revelations about Amin ’ s human rights violations provoked an international public outcry that led to the imposition of U. S. trade sanctions on the Ugandan government.

In 2000, writer Brian Pera, who had traveled the country on his own book tour, said he had met other writers who were in contact with LeRoy by e-mail and phone ; LeRoy had bonded via extensive, often contradictory revelations, but was never able to meet these carefully cultivated confidants in public or in private.

In large part due to public anger over the revelations in the Fitzgerald report, the National Party was heavily defeated in the December 1989 state election, which brought the Australian Labor Party to power for the first time since 1957.