Annie Besant
British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator (1847-1933) · United Kingdom · Activists · Died at 85
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Something wrong?Annie Besant was an English socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and activist, educationist, involved in women's rights, Home Rule, and Indian nationalism. She gave support to both Irish and Indian self-rule. She had been the first female president of the Indian National Congress in 1917.
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St. Margaret's church in Sibsey, Lincolnshire, where Frank Besant was vicar from 1872 to 1917
Annie Besant's house, 39 Colby Road, Upper Norwood, now bearing a blue plaque
Studio portrait of Besant, c. 1910
Annie Besant, c. 1897
Rudolf Steiner and Annie Besant in Munich, 1907
Annie Besant with Henry Olcott (left) and Charles Leadbeater (right) in Adyar, Madras in December 1905Awards
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