Pert, Alan. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford. Books and Writers.
75, 80, 155
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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 |
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 |
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 |
Cultural formation | Henrietta Müller | Drawn by its ideals of spiritual and sexual equality, Henrietta Müller
joined the TheosophicalSociety
and increasingly connected her feminist politics to her spiritual ideals. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminists. New Press. 167 Dixon, Joy. Divine Feminine: Theosophy and Feminism in England. Johns Hopkins University Press. 174 |
Cultural formation | Florence Farr | Having resigned from the Order of the Golden Dawn
, FF
joined the LondonTheosophical Society
. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe. 92 |
Cultural formation | Florence Farr | Brought up as an Anglican
, she developed in the 1890s a strong interest in eastern mysticism and the occult, and played an active role in the Order of theGolden Dawn
and then in the... |
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 |
Cultural formation | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
begins her autobiography with her local identity: I was Yorkshire born. My forebears, grandparents maternal and paternal, were all born in Yorkshire, in Leeds so far as I know. Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press. 7 |
Cultural formation | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Katharine Conway, later KBG
, was born to an English, white, minister's family, who considering their middle-class status were relatively poor. She was the product of her parents' views on equality of educational opportunities for... |
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 | Anna Kingsford | AK
was elected president of the British Theosophical Society
. Pert, Alan. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford. Books and Writers. 107 |
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 |
Cultural formation | Anna Kingsford | As an adult, she converted from Anglicanism
to Catholicism
. She later became a vegetarian, and involved herself with two alternative movements, Spiritualism and Theosophy, before breaking away from the Theosophical Society
to form the... |
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