Biography annie besant
Annie besant autobiography.
Annie Besant
Biography annie besant
Brought up in a religious household and married to Revd Frank Besant. She divorced her husband and became involved in radical politics, atheism, socialism, theosophy and birth control amongst other campaigning issues. In imperial terms, her interest was connected to two causes; that of Ireland and then India.
Her family had strong connections with Ireland and her parents had both been brought up there. She was radicalised into supporting Irish Home Rule by the events of Bloody Sunday in 1887 and what she felt was the Liberal Government's heavy handedness and coercive stance towards the Irish and their political and economic aspirations.
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It became a cause celebre for radicals and socialists in Britain and one that catapulted Annie to the forefront of radical opposition to the authorities. Despite being a prominent speaker she was not arrested at the event as she was a woman!
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