Theosophical Society

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...

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. In 1882...

In 1906 CC became the first National Lecturer for the English Section of the Theosophical Society . She had never lectured before and was nervous about her new title. However, she felt she must...

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

Her first object in India was to attend the eighteenth annual convention of the Theosophical Society . She also toured Theosophical branches.

By 1907 she was the president of the Theosophical Society .

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. Born English therefore, she...

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...

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...

AK was elected president of the British Theosophical Society .

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.

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...

She was recommended to take over as president of the Society by Charles Massey , a past president who had temporarily taken up the position again after the resignation of Dr George Wyld . Once...

Theosophical Society member Henry Olcott had suggested that rather splitting the society into two factions, AK should get a charter and create their own society. The Hermetic Society was inaugurated two days after Kingsford's application...

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 .