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	Annie Besant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Annie Wood was born in 1847 in London into a middle-class family of Irish origin.
		Annie was educated privately by a female tutor as an Evangelical Christian.
		Annie Besant died in 1933 and was survived by her daughter, Mabel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Annie_Besant (3693 words)

	Alpheus--Annie Besant's Quest for Truth
		Annie Besant was arguably the most famous, or rather infamous, woman of her age.* For much of the 1870s and 1880s, she promoted the secularist cause with remarkable vigour.
		Besant concluded, therefore, because morality entailed harmony with a natural law, and because we could not discover this law by either revelation or intuition, 'the true basis of morality must necessarily be sought for in the study of law, as manifested in phenomena'.
		Besant herself first reacted favourably to socialism on 12 January 1883 when she heard Louise Michel, an anarcho-communist, lecture movingly on the need for a greater sense of brotherhood if society were to alleviate the plight of the starving women and children in the slums of Paris.
	www.alpheus.org /html/articles/theosophy/bevir3_print.html (12230 words)

	BBC - History - Annie Besant (1847 - 1933)
		Annie Besant is often described as a Theosophist, educator and friend of India.
		Annie's marriage in 1867 to Frank Besant, who became a vicar in Lincolnshire, resulted in the birth of two children, but Annie's increasingly irreligious views led to a legal separation in 1873.
		Besant eventually became reunited with her own children, but died in India, where her ashes were scattered at the seashore.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/besant_annie.shtml (503 words)

	biography of Annie Besant
		Annie Besant, the daughter of William Wood and Emily Morris, was born in 1847.
		Besant used the publicity of the case to persuade the courts that he, rather than Annie Besant, should have custody of their daughter Mabel.
		Annie Besant died in India in 1933 at the age of 86.
	www.theosophycardiff.care4free.net /Besantbiography.htm (904 words)

	Annie Besant's Shifting Identiy and Fin-de-Siècle Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		So when we re-consider the canon, Annie Besant (1847-1933) may certainly be regarded as one of the first authors who come to our mind for her work illustrates women's criticism as written at the turn of the century.
		Despite Besant's dialogue between her -- the sage -- and the audience, her activism and conversion to Theosophy have undoubtedly contributed to the persistence of her marginalization.
		Besides being a theosophist in later life, Annie Besant was a "scandalous woman" who left her clergyman husband and decided to preach freethought and feminism.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/besant/besant.html (2506 words)

	Annie Besant :: Indian Leader
		Annie Besant, the daughter of William Wood and Emily Morris, was born in 1847 at Clapham, London.
		Annie was deeply unhappy because her independent spirit clashed with the traditional views of her husband.
		Annie Besant was greatly admired and respected for her learning, dignity, grace, and eloquence.
	www.ceeby.com /people/anniebesant.cfm (589 words)

	THEOSOPHY CANADA - FOHAT- Annie Besant Part 2
		Annie Besant was more a materialist socialist[3] than Burrows who approached Theosophy more as genuine philosophy which could help him understand humanity's social/moral problems, and could nourish his quest for answers to his complex bewilderment.
		Besant was determined to go to India, stating "I am ordered to go."[37] She claimed to have received a message from the Master.
		Besant advocated the Malthus doctrine (Thomas R. Malthus, 1766-1834): "that the increase in population is greater than the increase in the means of subsistence and that unless birth is controlled, poverty and war must serve as a natural restriction of the increase (Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1975).
	www.theosophycanada.com /fohat_annie1.htm (5112 words)

	BookRags: Annie Wood Besant Biography
		In 1885 Besant joined the Fabian Society, drawn in by the writer George Bernard Shaw soon after its founding.She was already known as a brilliant speaker, and she did effective work for the Fabians.
		In 1888 Besant organized a successful strike of 700 girls at the Bryant and May match factory.This strike demonstrated that unskilled Labor could successfully combine, by industry rather than by craft, and it was in effect a test for the famous London dock strike of 1889.
		Besant toured the Western nations during the 1920s with a young Hindu, Jiddu Krishnamurti, whom she regarded as the new messiah.After a period of failing health, Mrs.Besant died at Adyar on Sept.20, 1933.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/annie-wood-besant (221 words)

	Journal of San Diego History article
		Besant talked of "mummeries masquerading under the cloak of true belief," because "she is a victim of her own selfishness." In direct response to Mrs.
		Instead Annie Besant devoted the night to a discussion of "Man's Unseen Bodies." Although her "audience was not large," it was "very attentive." To illustrate this lecture, Mrs.
		Besant possessed "remarkable powers as an orator and thinker, and not a moment of her address was dull or lacking in substance for study." He concluded that if her statements were true, they would "completely overturn the accepted theories regarding man" and establish "a new and startling field for scientific investigation."
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/77spring/besant.htm (2416 words)

	Annie Besant
		She continued to write letters to British newspapers arguing the case for women's suffrage and in 1911 was one of the main speakers at an important NUWSS rally in London.
		Annie Besant responded to this decision by writing her own book on birth control.
		Besant joined the Fabian Society very shortly after its creation, and was one of the famous group who formulated the principles of English Socialism.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Wbesant.htm (1713 words)

	Kamat's Potpourri: The Women of India - Biography of Annie Besant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the field of education, social reforms and political struggle, Dr. Annie Besant was the foremost woman leader, India had seen in pre-Independence era.
		Besant entered the huge conference pendal at the furthest end, to bid her welcome and the large audience followed and stood up.
		Besant to speak and requested the audience to give her the most respectful listening.
	www.kamat.com /kalranga/women/besant.htm (906 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Annie Besant: Social activist who lit a match \| Bryant and May ...
		Besant was educated by Ellen Marryat, sister of the noted writer of sea adventures, Frederick Marryat.
		Annie Besant was a member of the National Secular Society, which preached 'free thought' and of the
		In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /annie_besant.html (2003 words)

	Dobra on Besant
		At age 20, she was coaxed into a loveless marriage to the Reverend Frank Besant, by all accounts a dull, unimaginative and sometimes violent man. Before long, her active intellect led her to question some of the most basic tenets of Christianity, creating an intolerable hypocrisy in her role as minister's wife.
		Annie Besant's varied careers were motivated by a typically Victorian belief in progress and desire to ameliorate the social conditions.
		Another way to say this is that Annie Besant was one of the first "New Age" proponents, with a resulting social conscience that bound together her seemingly disconnected life's works.
	www.csuchico.edu /phil/sdobra_mat/besantpaper.html (4257 words)

	Annie Besant
		Annie Besant is best known for her association with Theosophy, the Buddhist and Hindu influenced religious society founded by H.
		Besant also gained considerable reknown, during her lifetime, fighting for various social causes, including Indian home rule, the plight of London's poverty stricken women and children, and birth control.
		Besant was nearly jailed for the latter, but the conviction was overturned on appeal.
	www.nndb.com /people/299/000098005 (107 words)

	Annie Besant
		Like Catherine Booth of the Salvation Army, Annie was concerned about the health of young women workers at the Bryant and May match factory.
		On 23rd June, 1888, Annie published an article White Slavery in London where she drew attention to the dangers of phosphorus fumes and complained about the low wages paid to the women who worked at Bryant and May.
		Annie responded by helping the women at Bryant and May to form a Matchgirls Union.
	www.katinkahesselink.net /his/Besant.html (793 words)

	Annie Besant
		It was on this date, October 1, 1847, that English Atheist-turned-Theosophist Annie Besant (originally Annie Wood), was born in London.
		In 1877 Besant and Bradlaugh republished Charles Knowlton's book advocating birth control, for which they were both found guilty and sentenced to six months in prison.
		Besant still argued forcefully for women's rights and, once she moved to India as the new leader of the Theosophical sect, worked for Indian home rule and continued to lecture and write.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/1001almanac.htm (742 words)

	Dr. Annie Besant
		Annie Besant is one of those foreigners who inspired the love of the country among Indians.
		Besant, said Mahatma Gandhi, awakened India from her deep slumber.
		By 1889, "there was scarcely any modern reform (in England) for which she had not worked, written spoken and suffered."Dr. Besant started the Home Rule League in India for obtaining the freedom of the country and reviving the country's glorious cultural heritage.
	www.liveindia.com /freedomfighters/18.html (232 words)

	Annie Besant - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		Annie Besant (October 1, 1847 - September 20, 1933) was a prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator.
		Besant was divorced from her clergyman husband Frank Besant, younger brother of Walter Besant, and she had to leave both her children behind.
		She fought for the causes she thought were right, starting with freedom of thought, women's rights, birth control, Fabian socialism and workers' rights.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php?title=Annie_Besant&redirect=no (578 words)

	Besant, Annie - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BESANT, ANNIE [Besant, Annie], 1847-1933, English social reformer and theosophist, b.
		She steadily grew away from Christianity and in 1873 separated from her husband, a Protestant clergyman.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Besant, Annie" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Besant-A.asp (392 words)

	Annie Besant, theosophist
		She married Frank Besant, an Anglican clergyman, in 1867 but separated from him five years later because of doctrinal differences.
		Besant was also a member of the socialistic Fabian Society.
		Besant wrote widely on theosophy and was president of the Theosophical Society from 1907 until her death.
	www.occultopedia.com /b/besant.htm (569 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Book of Days \| October 1 \| Harvest Thanksgiving Annie Besant Battle ...
		Mrs Besant's daughter, Mrs Besant-Scott, is married to a Melbourne pressman and is a clever young lady who has succeeded equally well as a cyclist and as spokeswoman of an adult-suffrage deputation to the Victorian Premier.
		Mrs Besant makes her clearest and brightest point in charging the church with having led man to believe that he is naturally a base animal – with having persistently cursed his fleshly lusts, and exhorted him to feel sorry for his disgraceful conduct, instead of teaching him to glory in his noble impulses.
		From September 29, Mrs Besant continued her lecture tour in Sydney.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/oct1.html (4244 words)

	The Union Makes Us Strong: TUC History Online
		Annie Besant (1847-1933) joined the National Secular Society in the 1870s and became a journalist on the National Reformer.
		She also became secretary of the Malthusian League and was prosecuted, along with Charles Bradlaugh, for the publication of works on birth control.
		He was also a prominent theosophist and, with Besant, edited a glossary of theosophical terms.
	www.unionhistory.info /matchworkers/besant.php (267 words)

	ANNIE WOOD BESANT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Annie Wood was born in London to a middle-class Irish couple.
		After her father's death, relatives paid for her brother's education at Harrow while Annie was lucky to be admitted free to the home school of a family friend.
		After divorcing Frank Besant, Annie supported herself and daughter by writing and lecturing for the Freethinkers, Theism and Fabian Socialism.
	www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/besant.html (286 words)

	Annie Besant
		A British social reformer and Theosophist, Annie Besant was one of the most active and remarkable personalities of her time.
		Born Annie Wood, in London, she married a Church of England clergyman named Besant in 1867, but the marriage failed.
		An ardent Anglo-Catholic as a girl, she moved towards atheism and became a leading figure in the National Secular Society.
	www.kheper.net /topics/Theosophy/Besant.html (256 words)

	Freemasonry: Midwife to an Occult Empire
		Annie Besant (October 1, 1847 - September 20, 1933) was responsible for founding the British Federation of the International Order of Co-Freemasonry.
		Besant was intimately involved with Fabian socialism and was a member of the Fabian Society.
		In 1907 Annie Besant became president of the Theosophical Society.
	www.conspiracyarchive.com /NWO/Freemasonry.htm (5924 words)

	Annie Besant biography
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		On 23rd June, 1888, Annie published an article White Slavery in London where she drew attention to the dangers of phosphorus fumes and complained about the low wages paid to the women who worked at Bryant & May.
		Three women who provided information for Annie's article were sacked.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /theosophy/annie_besant.html (912 words)

	Annie Besant: An Autobiography by Annie Wood Besant, ISBN: 0835675688 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Annie Besant: An Autobiography by Annie Wood Besant, isbn: 0835675688
		Annie Besant has lead a life of multiple deconversions.
		First a preachers wife, then a socialist, and then a theosophist (with other steps in between), she tells her remarkable life story with candor and honesty.
	www.campusi.com /isbn_0835675688.htm (168 words)

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