Annie Besant

Annie Besant () adalah seorang sosialis, teosofis, aktivis hak asasi wanita, penulis dan orator dan pendukung kemerdekaan Irlandia dan India.

Pada 1867, Annie pada usia 20 tahun, menikahi Frank Besant, seorang rohaniwan, dan mereka memiliki dua anak, namun pandangan Annie yang semakin anti-agama berujung pada perceraian pada 1873. Ia kemudian menjadi jurubicara penting untuk Perhimpunan Sekuler Nasional dan penulis dan teman dekat dari Charles Bradlaugh. Pada 1877, mereka diringkus karena menerbitkan buku karya pengkampanye kontrol kelahiran Charles Knowlton. Skandal tersebut membuat mereka tenar, dan Bradlaugh terpilih menjadi Anggota Parlemen untuk Northampton pada 1880.

Referensi

Bacaan tambahan 
 Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit. New Amsterdam Books, 2000, 68, 81-82, 92-96, 135-139
 Chandrasekhar, S. "A Dirty, Filthy Book": The Writing of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on Reproductive Physiology and Birth Control and an Account of the Bradlaugh-Besant Trial. University of California Berkeley 1981
 Grover, Verinder and Ranjana Arora (eds.) Annie Besant: Great Women of Modern India – 1: Published by Deep of Deep Publications, New Delhi, India, 1993
 Kumar, Raj, Annie Besant's Rise to Power in Indian Politics, 1914–1917. Concept Publishing, 1981
 Kumar, Raj Rameshwari Devi and Romila Pruthi. Annie Besant: Founder of Home Rule Movement, Pointer Publishers, 2003 ISBN 81-7132-321-9
 Manvell, Roger. The trial of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh. Elek, London 1976
 Nethercot, Arthur H. The first five lives of Annie Besant Hart-Davis: London, 1961
 Nethercot, Arthur H. The last four lives of Annie Besant Hart-Davis: London (also University of Chicago Press 1963) ISBN 0-226-57317-6
 Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography, Oxford University Press, 1991 (also US edition 1992) ISBN 0-19-211796-3
 Uglow, Jennifer S., Maggy Hendry, The Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography. Northeastern University, 1999

Pranala luar 

 
 
 
 
 Annie Wood Besant: Orator, Activist, Mystic, Rhetorician  By Susan Dobra
 Annie Besant's Quest for Truth: Christianity, Secularism, and New Age Thought
 Annie Besant's Multifaceted Personality. A Biographical Sketch
 Thought power, its control and culture Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection.
 The British Federation of the International Order of Co-Freemasonry, Le Droit Humain, founded by Annie Besant in 1902
 Annie Besant Biography at varanasi.org.in
 William Thomas Stead, “Character Sketch: October of Mrs. Annie Besant” 349-367 in Review of Reviews IV:22, October 1891.

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