Annie Besant
Annie Besant (née Wood; 1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and Home Rule activist, educationist ...
Annie Besant | Indian Nationalist, Theosophist, Writer | Britannica
Annie Besant was a British social reformer, sometime Fabian socialist, theosophist, and Indian independence leader. Besant had been the wife ...
Besant was a British social reformer, campaigner for women's rights and a supporter of Indian nationalism.
Annie Besant | Making Britain - The Open University
Annie Besant ... About: Annie Besant was a leading member of the Theosophical Society, a feminist and political activist, and a politician in India. She had a ...
Annie Wood Besant (1847–1933) | Embryo Project Encyclopedia
Annie Wood Besant was a social activist who advocated for women's access to birth control as well as marriage reform, labor reform, ...
Dr. Annie Besant. Dr. Annie Besant, the founding member of Besant Hill School of Happy Valley in Ojai, California. A prominent women's rights activist, ...
Annie Besant - Indian National Congress
First female President of Indian National Congress: 1847-1933 (Calcutta, 1917) Annie Besant was born in London on 1 October 1847.
Annie Besant (Author of Thought-Forms) - Goodreads
Annie Besant's Books · Thought-Forms by Annie Besant Thought-Forms · An Introduction to Yoga by Annie Besant An Introduction to Yoga · Esoteric Christianity by ...
Annie Besant | Social Reformer | Blue Plaques - English Heritage
Annie Besant was, at different points in her life, a freethinker, a journalist, a publisher and editor, an atheist, a promoter of birth control, a socialist, a ...
Annie Besant biography - Age of the Sage
Annie Besant biography. Annie Besant, the daughter of William Wood and Emily Morris, was born in 1847. Annie's father, a doctor, died when she was only five ...
Annie Besant | The Matchgirls Memorial
At a time when it wasn't easy for women to lead independent lives she did just that, campaigning and supporting many causes and injustices.
An Autobiography by Annie Besant - Project Gutenberg
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Annie Besant - Herstory Ireland's Epic Women | EPIC Museum
Annie Besant, the trade unionist, socialist, and later Indian nationalist who was the first woman to endorse birth control.
In Opposition to the Raj: Annie Besant and the Dialectic of Empire
When Annie Besant landed in India she disavowed all political intent, but she soon became a militant nationalist - the only western woman ever elected ...
Annie Besant | National Secular Society
Nevertheless, by the late 1880s Besant was moving away from secularism. In 1889 she started taking an interest in theosophy, and it was clear that her time as a ...
Annie Besant in India - Theosophical Society in America
In addition to assuming the presidency of the TS in 1907, Besant became a vocal advocate of Indian home rule, spending time in internment for her stance. She ...
Annie Besant (née Wood) - Person - National Portrait Gallery
Socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and supporter of Irish and Indian self-rule Besant controversially separated from her clergyman ...
Annie Besant (1847-1933) | Humanist Heritage
Annie Besant (1847-1933) · Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. · Annie Besant was a socialist, activist, and champion of human freedom, who became ...
Annie Besant: '[a] stormy, public, much attacked and slandered life'
Annie Besant died on 20 September 1933 in Tamil Nadu, India (formerly Madras), aged 84. Despite leading a determinedly independent life, Annie ...
Annie Besant - Dublin - EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
Annie Besant, featured in our 'Leading Change' gallery at EPIC, was born in London in 1847. Her parents, William Wood and Ellen Morris, had moved from Dublin ...