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Annie Besant: Writings
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Annie Besant was a woman led by compassion and drive for equality, justice and truth. With little concern given to others opinion of her she was able to focus on leading those whose causes stirred something within her.
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Annie Besant tells the story, in her Autobiography, of her first experience as an orator. The year was 1873; Besant was a young woman of 24. She was in her husband's empty church in Sibsey, England, practicing on the organ, when she decided to ascend the pulpit, just to see what it felt like. Taking her place behind it, she began to deliver a sermon, imagining a church-full of rapt listeners. Effortlessly she held forth, her voice echoing in full tones, enlarging her words and endowing them with magnificence:
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In 1867, at age nineteen she married 26-year-old clergyman Frank Besant, younger brother of Walter Besant. He was an evangelical Anglican clergyman who seemed to share many of her concerns. Soon Frank became vicar of Sibsey in Lincolnshire. Annie moved to Sibsey with her husband, and within a few years they had two children: Digby and Mabel. The marriage was... a disaster. The first conflict came over money and Annie's independence.
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Annie Willson, Mrs. Besant's secretary, believed the trip to San Diego a success. She reported that "when we left on Saturday, May Ist, we felt that we had found several people who might become centres of Theosophic thought in their respective neighborhoods." She was particularly pleased that a number of people "united and formed a lodge."21
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In 1928 Dr. Besant was re-elected for the fourth time as President. She nominated Mr. A.P. Warrington as Vice-President, in the place of Mr. Jinarajadasa, who had resigned the post. A Third World Congress was held in Chicago in 1929, at which great enthusiasm was displayed.
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Besant toured the Western nations during the 1920s with a young Hindu, Jiddu Krishnamurti, whom she regarded as the new messiah. After a period of failing health, Mrs. Besant died at Adyar on Sept. 20, 1933.
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