Annie Besant tells of her London birth and Irish family, a devout girlhood, and her unhappy marriage to a country clergyman. Doubt grows into open unbelief; she leaves her husband, writes for the freethought press, joins Charles Bradlaugh on the platform, and fights for women’s rights and the freedom to publish, at the price of losing her children.
Written in 1885, before her turn to Theosophy, it is a vivid record of Victorian radicalism. Download the free EPUB.