The complete online text of Annie Besant by Annie Besant.

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 wa...

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...