Besant
Americannoun
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Annie (Wood), 1847–1933, English theosophist.
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Sir Walter, 1836–1901, English novelist.
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Naidu and Besant led a delegation of Indian women to lay out their arguments for the right to vote before the Secretary of State.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2023
Scriabin was drawn to London, where the Theosophist Annie Besant was headquartered, and Ogden was well equipped to capture that occult.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2020
By contrast, Gandhi acquired legal credentials while becoming acquainted with Helena Blavasky, the occultist and founder of the Theosophical Society, and with Annie Besant, another theosophist, with whom Gandhi discussed “the universal brotherhood of humanity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2016
At a morning concert at the Besant Hill School—an institution whose founders include Krishnamurti and Aldous Huxley—I.C.E. presented Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s “In the Light of Air,” for viola, cello, piano, harp, percussion, and electronics.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 29, 2015
“Call it no more the White City on the Lake,” wrote Sir Walter Besant, the English historian and novelist, in Cosmopolitan, “it is Dreamland.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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