After a period of continued religious crisis, during which Thomas Scott
and Charles Voysey
befriended her, AB
left her husband
, taking her daughter
with her.
Taylor, Anne, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992.
39-60
Friends, Associates
Annie Besant
AB
met Charles Bradlaugh
in 1874, the year after forming her friendships with Thomas Scott
and Charles Voysey
. Bradlaugh was a lawyer, a militant atheist, republican, and teetotaller, a huge man with a huge...
Publishing
Annie Besant
Over the following months, Thomas Scott
paid AB
for further pamphlets which she assiduously researched in the British Museum
, producing titles such as Inspiration, The Atonement, Meditation and Salvation, Eternal Torture...
Textual Production
Annie Besant
Thomas Scott
published AB
's sceptical pamphlet, On the Deity of Jesus
of Nazareth, which contributed to the ending of her marriage.
Taylor, Anne, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992.
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