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Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford (Cactus Vermelho: a Vida de Anna Kingsford). Alan Pert. Wild & Woolley,
Informações: Biografia recentemente publicada, escrita por um dos pioneiros na divulgação de informações sobre Anna Kingsford na Internet: Alan Pert. A obra pode ser adquirida na Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Red-Cactus-Life-Anna-Kingsford/dp/174018405X
Red Cactus
by Alan Pert
Here at last, an accurate biography of the amazing Englishwoman, Anna Kingsford (1846-1888).
She accomplished much of lasting value in her life, tragically cut short by consumption.
Beautiful, talented and rich, she eloped with a theology student at the age of 21, and married him on the condition that she be free to pursue her own career.
She owned a paper in
On invitation, she became president of the British Theosophical Society, but fell out with the irascible Madame Blavatsky to form her own Hermetic Society.
She will long be remembered for her mystical works, her promotion of vegetarianism and animal welfare, and her courage in exposing cant and hypocrisy in a repressive age.
Anna Kingsford's reputation has been seriously maligned in some quarters. Did she kill two Frenchmen by mind power? Was her mind taken over by a black magician? In past lives was she Mary Magdalen, Joan of Arc, and Anne Boleyn?
Now, for the first time, these and other disturbing questions are answered.