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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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Biography of Annie Wood Besant
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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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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...


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Besant, Annie Wood : Hindu Terms
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(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...
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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: 384 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
12/09/2007: 2,154 words, approx. 7 pages
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...
 


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