Biography of annie besant youtube videos

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By: Lawrence Walker. That one loyalty to Truth I must keep stainless, whatever friendships fail me or human ties be broken. After the early death of her father in , the family were brought up in relative poverty and Annie was looked after by a friend of the family Ellen Marryat. This enabled Annie to gain a good education and travel around Europe.

In , aged only 19, she married a clergyman Frank Besant, seven years her senior. They went to live in Sibsey, Lincolnshire, where Frank was a vicar. However, the marriage soon experienced difficulties. Annie became increasingly radicalised in her political views; whereas Frank was generally conservative, Annie instinctively supported the rights of workers and poor farmers.

More seriously Annie began questioning the religion of birth and in , she stopped receiving Communion because she no longer felt she could call herself a Christian. This was the final straw for the marriage and Annie left her husband taking her daughter to London. Looking back on her marriage, she reveals a temperament not suited to the Victorian expectations of a passive wife.