Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press.
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Standard Name: Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna
Used Form: Madame Blavatsky
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Marina Warner | MW
published No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock, a study of images that frighten children. |
| Textual Features | Mona Caird | Her protagonist, ambiguous and unsympathetic |
| Textual Features | Clara Codd | CC
simplifies Blavatsky
's original work. She omits several Sanskrit terms, and references to Neoplatonic authorities and to Victorian writers, since she believed them difficult for the enquirer to grasp. Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, and Clara Codd. The Key to Theosophy. The Theosophical Publishing House. compiler's preface |
| Publishing | Clara Codd | CC
edited a compilation of the writings of Madame Blavatsky
(which shared the title of Blavatsky's The Key to Theosophy, 1889), through the Theosophical Publishing House
in Adyar, a district of Madras (now... |
| Author summary | Clara Codd | Clara Codd
's career in print spanned fifty years. Beginning in 1916 with her Theosophy for Very Little Children, she was a prolific writer of Theosophical texts. She also wrote poetry and an autobiography... |
| Occupation | Annie Besant | Madame Blavatsky
died, having appointed AB
the Chief Secretary of the Theosophical Society
. Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 258 |
| Literary responses | Anna Kingsford | More recently, literary scholar Alex Owen
has said that The Perfect Wayparalleled the achievement of Blavatsky
's Esoteric Buddhism. Owen, Alex. The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern. University of Chicago Press. 41 |
| Friends, Associates | W. B. Yeats | Several women writers and public figures played very important roles in Yeats's life. Lady Gregory
(whom he first met in London in 1894 and whose close friend he became in 1896) played a crucial role... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Annie Besant | William Stead
, a political ally of AB
, arranged for her to meet Madame Blavatsky
. Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 240 |
| Cultural formation | Anna Kingsford | With her election as president, however, the Theosophical Society became embroiled in public controversy over its purpose and goals. Kingsford and Maitland supported a vision of reincarnation and karma based on esoteric Christianity, while Alfred Percy Sinnett |
| Cultural formation | Rose Allatini | RA
(who was probably brought up in the Jewish faith) became known as an Occultist. Higher Occultism was connected to the Theosophical Movement, which was inspired by two Indian High Initiates known as Master Koot Hoomi |
| Cultural formation | Mona Caird | MC
received her diploma of membership in Blavatsky Lodge
, a group in Madame Blavatsky
's Theosophy movement
. Bertram Keightley
seconded her membership; she resigned on 19 January 1909. Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press. 270n77 |
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
.
Texts
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, and Clara Codd. The Key to Theosophy. The Theosophical Publishing House, 1987.