Annie Besant

An alternative childhood; the half-angelic being; a husband's authority; "you have read too much already"; flight; hardship; iconoclast; the cry for light; heroine of free-thought; the Knowlton trial; life-enhancing checks; Besant vs society; tutorials; "let the people speak!"; social reform, not socialism; Bradlaugh estranged; the new model leader; Annie Militant; "superhuman, spiritual realities"; gone to theosophy; "Mrs Besant, I suppose?"; Aryavarta; "Bande Mataram"; bullets and brickbats.