Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Annie Besant | Madame Blavatsky
died, having appointed AB
the Chief Secretary of the Theosophical Society
. Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 258 |
Travel | Annie Besant | AB
visited India for the first time to attend a Theosophical Society
convention; the subcontinent became her home. Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 267 Dinnage, Rosemary. Annie Besant. Penguin. 10 |
Textual Production | Annie Besant | The last pamphlet published by AB
before her death appeared through the Theosophical Society
, The Bearing of Religious Ideals on Social Reorganization. The Theosophical Society in Australia. http://www.austheos.org.au/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Annie Besant | Stead had previously given her what became a highly influential book for her, Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine. With Henry Steele Olcott
, Madame Blavatsky had founded the Theosophical Society
in 1875. AB
, delighted... |
Cultural formation | Annie Besant | Her first object in India was to attend the eighteenth annual convention of the Theosophical Society
. She also toured Theosophical branches. Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 269, 274 |
Cultural formation | Annie Besant | By 1907 she was the president of the Theosophical Society
. Dinnage, Rosemary. Annie Besant. Penguin. 10 |
Friends, Associates | Annie Besant | She was convinced by Charles Leadbeater
that the former was the World Teacher who would lead the Theosophists
. Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 291 |
Cultural formation | Mona Caird | MC
's mother was German and her father was Scots (as was the man she later married). Both before and after her marriage she belonged to families that were in comfortable financial circumstances: her birth... |
Cultural formation | Clara Codd | While in Geneva, CC
was first exposed to Theosophy. Her neighbour Madame von Pachten
brought her to Theosophical Society
meetings, one of which was a lecture by Colonel Henry Olcott
. Codd, Clara. So Rich a Life. Caxton Limited. 25-6 |
Employer | Clara Codd | In 1906 CC
became the first National Lecturer for the English Section of the Theosophical Society
. The International Theosophical Year Book: 1938. The Theosophical Publishing House. 173 |
Travel | Clara Codd | CC
travelled to the international headquarters of the Theosophical Society
in Adyar, India, to train further in Theosophy. When she first arrived she felt a strong sense of peace and noted that Adyar was... |
Employer | Clara Codd | When CC
returned to England, she found Annie Besant
had arranged for a wealthy American to pay her salary as a lecturer. These wages enabled her to travel throughout England lecturing for the Theosophical Society |
Textual Production | Clara Codd | CC
continued lecturing for the Theosophical Society
until her death in 1971. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. H. S. Olcott Memorial Library. http://www.theosophical.org/library. |
Cultural formation | Clara Codd | CC
joined the French Section of the Theosophical Society
. She first attended the Lodge Dharma
in Geneva and became interested in the Masters of the Wisdom. Dixon, Joy. Divine Feminine: Theosophy and Feminism in England. Johns Hopkins University Press. 42 Codd, Clara. The Way of the Disciple. The Theosophical Publishing House. 5 The International Theosophical Year Book: 1938. The Theosophical Publishing House. 173 |
Occupation | Clara Codd | On several Saturdays during these months, The Times included in its list of Sunday religious services in London CC
's conduct of Theosophical Society
meetings. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 43798 (1 November 1924): 17; 43804 (8 November 1924): 7; 43880 (7 February 1925): 15 |
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