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Theosophical Society
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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. 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 |
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 |
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 |
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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