Theosophical Society

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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
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
Cultural formation Anna Kingsford
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...
Cultural formation Anna Kingsford
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...
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...
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 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
Born English therefore, she...
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...
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...

Timeline

1875: Madame Blavatsky, now in New York, who had...

Building item

1875

Madame Blavatsky , now in New York, who had been a spiritualist medium and claimed first-hand knowledge of Eastern religious practice, founded the Theosophical Society with support from Henry Steele Olcott and William Q. Judge .

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