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Encouraged by Scott, Besant wrote an anonymous pamphlet On the Deity of Jesus of Nazareth , by "the wife of a beneficed clergyman", which appeared in While Bradlaugh may have had the better of the debate, followers then began to migrate into left-wing politics. BoD — Books on Demand. University Press. The next year Besant became president of the society and in , with her express support, Leadbeater was readmitted to the society.

Article Talk. For fifteen years, Besant was a public proponent in England of atheism and scientific materialism. Besant saw freemasonry, in particular Co-Freemasonry , as an extension of her interest in the rights of women and the greater brotherhood of man and saw co-freemasonry as a "movement which practised true brotherhood, in which women and men worked side by side for the perfecting of humanity.

Wood's father died when she was five years old, leaving a son, Henry Trueman Wood, and one daughter. His two children, Alice then aged 21, and Hypatia then 19, returned to live with him from his in-laws. After the war, she continued to campaign for Indian independence and for the causes of theosophy, until her death in As Besant wrote in her Autobiography , "we were an ill-matched pair".

In , she became ill in India.

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Besant drove about with a red ribbon in her hair, speaking at meetings. Summary [ edit ]. While he defended free speech, he was very cautious about encouraging working-class militancy. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published or registered with the U. You cannot overwrite this file. Besant met the leaders of the Irish home rule movement.

Retrieved 16 January References [ edit ]. In imperial terms, her interest was connected to two causes; that of Ireland and then India. They continued what had become a close friendship. Fabian Society — [ edit ]. Early life [ edit ].

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As the name suggested, this was originally a debating body, which met each year to consider resolutions on political issues. Her father was English, attended Trinity College Dublin , and attained a medical degree; her mother was an Irish Catholic. Author Theosophical Publishing House Limited. Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews: