Essay on annie besant

Annie Besant was born of Irish parents in the city of London, in the year 1847. At the very early age of sixteen, she had a keen desire to wage war against sin and misery. By the time she was of the age of eighteen she became a well known leader of militant atheism.

In the year 1855 she left home to be educated at the feet of Ellen Marryat and after her education she returned home after a long spell of eight years. In 1867, she married a clergyman of the name of Frank Besant.

She also joined the Theosophical Society and became its leader for Europe and India, in 1891. In the year 1893, Annie Besant came on a visit to India and she never looked back. India became her home, as; she loved the country of India and its inhabitants, the Indians.