Author: Annie Besant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theosophists
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Annie Besant
Author: Annie Besant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theosophists
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theosophists
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Annie Besant
Author: Anne Taylor
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192117960
Category : Social reformers
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
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 In this, the first full-length biography of Annie Besant in thirty years, Taylor draws on previously unpublished letters to show that Besant was in love, not with Shaw, but with journalist W. Stead who rejected her advances.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.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192117960
Category : Social reformers
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
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.
Thought-forms
Author: Annie Besant
Publisher:
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Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Ancient Wisdom
Author: Annie Besant
Publisher: Elibron.com
ISBN: 9780543938800
Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by the Theosophical Publishing Society in London, 1899.
Publisher: Elibron.com
ISBN: 9780543938800
Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by the Theosophical Publishing Society in London, 1899.
Fruits of Philosophy
Author: Charles Knowlton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Mrs Annie Besant
Author: Theodore Besterman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131541399X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131541399X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
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.
The Future of Indian Politics
Author: Annie Besant
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Thought Power
Author: Annie Besant
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359455778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
In this classic small book, famed occultists and mystic philosopher Annie Besant explores the vital substance of the mind, and explains how it leads the Ego, the Self, through life based on the mental images fostered there. Learn to harness the power of thought, and control the destiny you are called to fulfill, here on Earth. An invaluable treatise on the explosive power held within the human brain.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359455778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
In this classic small book, famed occultists and mystic philosopher Annie Besant explores the vital substance of the mind, and explains how it leads the Ego, the Self, through life based on the mental images fostered there. Learn to harness the power of thought, and control the destiny you are called to fulfill, here on Earth. An invaluable treatise on the explosive power held within the human brain.
The Spiritual Life
Author: Annie Besant
Publisher:
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Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Wake Up, India
Author: Annie Besant
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description