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The Freethought Publishing Company was established in 1877 by Annie Besant [1] and Charles Bradlaugh [2] to publish books and pamphlets to promote the cause of secularism, social reform and freedom of thought. Their publications were printed initially at 28 Stonecutter Street, London E.C and then at 63 Fleet Street, London E.C.
Money was short and Frank Besant was stingy. Annie Besant was sure a third child would impose too much on the family finances. [4] She wrote short stories, books for children, and articles, the money she earned being controlled by her husband. Besant began to question her own faith, after her daughter Mabel was seriously ill in 1871. [4]
The first issues were co-edited with Mabel Collins. From 1889 until Blavatsky's death in May 1891 Annie Besant was a co-editor. Besant then published the journal until September 1895, when George Robert Stowe Mead became a co-editor. The journal appeared twelve times a year and was 80 to 90 pages long. [1]
A religious studies scholar Isaac Lubelsky stated that Besant and Leadbeater write in the book the chain of the Moon "was an evolutionary precursor of the chain of the planet Earth." [ 2 ] In the chapter III the authors describe in detail how Sirius, Alcyone, Herakles and Mizar [ note 15 ] achieved individualization [ note 16 ] and left the ...
The children's novel Florence and the Mischievous Kitten by Megan Rix, published by Puffin Books in 2019, tells the story of the Bryant & May matchgirl Beth protesting in the summer of 1888 and her meeting with Florence Nightingale. [56] The children's novel Billy and the Match Girl by Paul Haston is about the Matchgirls Strike. [57]
An introduction to Yoga is a book by Annie Besant from 1908. The book consists of four lectures held by the author on the practice of yoga, its connection to Indian philosophy and practical application to everyday life. [1] The book has the purpose to familiarise the West with yoga and to promote Indian culture. Besant additionally adds some of ...
A historian Breen wrote that Besant and Leadbeater were well aware how annoying stuff may be their book for a "society that remained deeply conservative". In early January 1901, [note 59] when this book was published, "Queen Victoria still ruled England. 'Modernism' as a movement or even a concept did not exist. When we consider this world of ...
The Periodic Law: the number affixed to an element is the number of "Anu" (the ultimate physical particles of which matter is constituted). Occult Chemistry: Investigations by Clairvoyant Magnification into the Structure of the Atoms of the Periodic Table and Some Compounds (originally subtitled A Series of Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements) is a book written by Annie Besant ...