Seven Principles of Man

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(85 85 85 1)>Annie Wood Besant (1847-1933) was a prominent Theosophist women's rights activist writer and orator. She was born in London into a middle-class family of Irish origin. She fought for the causes she thought were right starting with freedom of thought women's rights secularism (she was a leading member of the National Secular Society) birth control Fabian socialism and workers' rights. Soon she was earning a small weekly wage by writing a column for the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(85 85 85 1)>National Reformer</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(85 85 85 1)> the newspaper of the National Secular Society. She was also one of the leading figures in Theosophy.</span></p><p><br></p><p> </p>