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Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a...


Biography

Name: Annie Wood Besant
Birth Date: October 1, 1847
Death Date: September 20, 1933
Place of Birth: London, England
Place of Death: Adyar, India
Nationality: British
Gender: Female
Occupations: social reformer, theosophist

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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...


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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...
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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...


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The Independent - London
MISTAKEN... ANNIE BESANT IN INDIA ; You write the reviews ++ Vayu Naidu Theatre Company ON TOUR
05/10/2007: 383 words, approx. 1 pages
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...
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The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
My great-great-gran led the matchgirls' strike in the East End and helped shape the modern world. What I wouldn't give to interview her on the GMTV sofa; VICTORIAN VICTOR: Annie Besant, born in 1847, campaigned for workers' rights and birth co
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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 tan...
 
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