Annie Besant: A Biography

by Anne Taylor

In her long life, Annie Besant embraced political, religious, and social causes with equal conviction and sincerity, courting ridicule and controversy by actively promoting unpopular ideas. At 26 she fled the shelter of marriage to an Anglican clergyman and renounced her religious upbringing by joining the National Secular Society. Under the influence of its president, Charles Bradlaugh, she wrote and lectured for the cause of Freethought, and in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192117963
• ISBN13: 9780192117960
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.8"