Annie Besant, along with reformers Josephine Butler and Milicent Fawcett, was one of three remarkable “apostolic” women of the age. That was the judgment of William T Stead, editor of the liberal ...

Any guesses who the first woman president of the Indian National Congress was? She presided over its Calcutta session in 1917 and was, in fact, British national, political firebrand and supporter of ...

SIR WALTER BESANT could not anticipate an editor's approach to his “Autobiography” of a less assuring character than that contrived by Mr. Sprigge. It would have been much better if the matter ...

"We are a family of Theosophists,” I have heard all my life. I mostly understood that to mean being like my sage, gentle great-grandfather who was a Theosophist. In family conversations, the term was ...