Search results
Oct 1, 2016 · Annie Besant was a prominent British theosophist and reformer, who was a supporter of Indian Independence. On this day, August 1, 1916, she started the Home Rule League. Annie was born on October 1, in the year 1847 in London into a middle class family of Irish origin.
Jul 11, 2023 · Annie Besant as a Social Reformer Annie Besant was a famous social reformer who had acted as a social activist for both country, England and India. She proved herself as one of the best social activists through her great and continued social works even after being criticized regarding to women’s rights in India.
Jan 1, 1999 · 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. She became a vice- president of the National Secular Society, the members of which thought almost as highly of her as they did of Charles Bradlaugh, the president.
Jul 4, 2020 · Annie Besant died on 20 September 1933 in Tamil Nadu, India (formerly Madras), aged 84. Despite leading a determinedly independent life, Annie suffered heavily for her choices, like so many other trailblazing women of her time and in her own words, ‘ […]with a great price I had obtained my freedom’.
20 Sep 1933. Location of death: Adyar, India. About: Annie Besant was a leading member of the Theosophical Society, a feminist and political activist, and a politician in India. She had a close relationship with Charles Bradlaugh, MP, a free-thinker who was often known as the 'Member for India'. Having declared herself an atheist, Annie Besant ...
May 8, 2024 · Annie Besant. This free-thinking woman campaigned for the downtrodden people of the Victorian era and beyond. She fought for what were radical ideas at the time such as votes for women, the right of trade unions to organize, and access to birth control. Born in London in October 1847, Annie Wood married a clergyman, Frank Besant, in 1867.
