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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
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Kingsford
Together, AK and Edward Maitland explored the supernatural, becoming involved with the Theosophical Society and the Hermetic Society , and worked tirelessly for the abolition of vivisection.
Pert, Alan. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford. Books and Writers.
75, 80, 155
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Edward Maitland
In 1882...
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
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
Occupation Florence Farr
Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan , her mentor nearly ten years earlier at the Theosophical Society , wrote to FF when his school was nearly completed. In preparation for her new position of principal, she returned to...
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
politics Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
Though her membership in the Theosophical Society is not proved, ADLP lectured and wrote for it in both New York and London. The theosophists were unconvinced by her belief in a connection between the Maya...
Author summary Anna Kingsford
Anna Kingsford , described by W. T. Stead as one of the most interesting and fascinating of the women of the Victorian era,
Review of Reviews.
13 (January 1896): 75
was a successful physician, religious leader, and woman...
Publishing Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
It appeared in four successive parts in the Theosophical Society 's The Word magazine, the last part in the October 1910 issue, a few months after she died. While she was writing the poem in...
Reception Anna Kingsford
The Perfect Way was virtually ignored by the mainstream press, though it received a one-line notice in W. T. Stead 's Review of Reviews: Mystical, and very suggestive from the standpoint of the Christian...
Residence Clara Codd
CC returned to Australia years after her first lengthy visit. On this occasion she became the General Secretary of the Australian section of the Theosophical Society , 1935-1936.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.
Codd, Clara. So Rich a Life. Caxton Limited.
367, 385
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Residence Clara Codd
CC travelled to South Africa. She planned to lecture there for only two years, but the Second World War caused her to stay for over eight. During this time she was also the General...
Textual Features Florence Farr
FF presents her work as a solution to the mystery of the Kabalists [which] has puzzled occult students . . . [f]or many centuries.
Farr, Florence. The Way of Wisdom. J. M. Watkins.
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She distances the work from its connection to the Jewish...
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/.
Her correspondence with other Theosophists and her recorded lectures are readily available at the Henry S. Olcott Memorial Library in Wheaton, Illinois.
H. S. Olcott Memorial Library. http://www.theosophical.org/library.

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