The British social reformer and theosophist Annie Wood Besant (1847-1933) made important contributions to a number of reformist and religious causes. She was a leader among Europeans in reviving and disseminating Hindu religion and culture. Annie Wood...

(1847–1933) originally a free thinker, pacifist and socialist, she joined the Theosophical Society in England in 1889 after she reviewed H.P.Blavatsky’s monumental work, The Secret Doctrine, and in 1893 she moved to India and became the...

BESANT, ANNIE. Annie Besant (1847–1933) was a British activist with many facets to her life: Anglican; atheist and Freethinker; socialist; Theosophist; educator, reformer, and politician in India; and prophetic announcer of the coming...

Annie Wood Besant (IPA: /ˈbɛsənt/; Clapham, London October 1 1847 – September 20, 1933 in Adyar, India) was a prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and...

Almost 100 years before Madonna, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, another Western celebrity's foreign adoption made the headlines. Annie Besant was a Victorian expat who had achieved international notoriety through her publication of a book advocating birth- control, and for being instrumental in the...

Byline: Angela Levin IT WOULD be all too easy to dismiss Andrew Castle. He was the 'nearly'man of British tennis, a genuine talent who famously gave it all up to sit onGMTV's comfy red sofas. With craggy good looks, a healthy...