Anti-vivisection, vegetarianism and women's rights activism
Notable work
The Perfect Way in Diet
Spouse
Algernon Godfrey Kingsford
(m. 1867)
Children
1
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Anna Kingsford (née Annie Bonus; 16 September 1846 – 22 February 1888) was an English anti-vivisectionist, vegetarianism and women's rights campaigner.[1]
She was one of the first English women to obtain a degree in medicine, after Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and the only medical student at the time to graduate without having experimented on a single animal. She pursued her degree in Paris, graduating in 1880 after six years of study, so that she could continue her animal advocacy from a position of authority. Her final thesis, L'Alimentation Végétale de l'Homme, was on the benefits of vegetarianism, published in English as The Perfect Way in Diet (1881).[2] She founded the Food Reform Society that year, travelling within the UK to talk about vegetarianism, and to Paris, Geneva, and Lausanne to speak out against animal experimentation.[1]
Kingsford was interested in Buddhism and Gnosticism, and became active in the Theosophical movement in England, becoming president of the London Lodge of the Theosophical Society in 1883. In 1884 she founded the Hermetic Society, which lasted until 1887 when her health declined.[3] She said she received insights in trance-like states and in her sleep; these were collected from her manuscripts and pamphlets by her lifelong collaborator Edward Maitland, and published posthumously in the book, Clothed with the Sun (1889).[4] Subject to ill-health all her life, she died of lung disease at the age of 41, brought on by a bout of pneumonia. Her writing was virtually unknown for over 100 years after Maitland published her biography, The Life of Anna Kingsford (1896), though Helen Rappaport wrote in 2001 that her life and work are once again being studied.[1]
^ abcRappaport, Helen. "Kingsford, Anna," Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers, 2001.
For Maitland's biography, see Maitland, Edward. The Life of Anna Kingsford. Kessinger Publishing, 2003 [first published 1896]; also available here Archived 12 May 2020 at the Wayback Machine.
^Rudacille, pp. 31, 46
^Christof, Catharine. "Feminist Action in and through Tarot and Modern Occult Society: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, UK and The Builders of the Adytum, USA". La Rosa Di Paracelso, 2017.
^Kingsford, Anna Bonus. Clothed with the Sun Archived 14 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine. John M. Watkins, 1889
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