Annie Besant

Annie Besant
Author: Annie Besant
Publisher:
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1908
Genre: Theosophists
ISBN:

Thought-forms

Thought-forms
Author: Annie Besant
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1905
Genre: Theosophy
ISBN:

Annie Besant

Annie Besant
Author: Anne Taylor
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 1992
Genre: Social reformers
ISBN: 9780192117960

In her long life, Annie Besant embraced political, religious, and social causes with equal conviction and sincerity, courting ridicule and controversy by actively promoting unpopular ideas. At 26 she fled the shelter of marriage to an Anglican clergyman and renounced her religious upbringing by joining the National Secular Society. Under the influence of its president, Charles Bradlaugh, she wrote and lectured for the cause of Freethought, and in 1876, achieved nationwide fame by defending birth control in a public court. She converted to socialism and through her friendship with Bernard Shaw joined the Fabian Society. In 1888 Besant played a leading role in the Bryant and May match girls' strike and became Secretary of the trade union they founded. But by 1891 she had fallen out of sympathy with socialists and turned instead to Theosophy and its eccentric prophet, Madame Blavatsky. Thereafter she divided her life between England and the Theosophical Society's headquarters in India. She joined the Indian National Congress and was interned in 1917 for her passionate advocacy of Home Rule. In this, the first full-length biography of Annie Besant in thirty years, Taylor draws on previously unpublished letters to show that Besant was in love, not with Shaw, but with journalist W. Stead who rejected her advances. The book reveals for the first time the full extent of the Government of India's alarm at Besant's commanding position in the crisis of 1917, and her bid for political and religious power in India.

The Ancient Wisdom

The Ancient Wisdom
Author: Annie Besant
Publisher: Elibron.com
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Theosophy
ISBN: 9780543938800

This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by the Theosophical Publishing Society in London, 1899.

Mrs Annie Besant

Mrs Annie Besant
Author: Theodore Besterman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 131541399X

Having already published a bibliography on Annie Besant, Theodore Besterman in this book continued with the story of her life. She was a prominent British Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator who lived between 1847 and 1933. Originally published in 1934, this work is fascinating for anyone with an interest in Annie Besant's life specifically or in any of the areas in which she became a household name.