Annie Besant: The Champion of Women’s Rights

To say that Annie Besant smashed through the gender-biases would be an understatement

If ever there was an example of a living a life that embodies how to, ‘breakthebias’, the theme of International Women’s Day this year, it was that of Annie Besant. Annie Besant (nee Wood) was born on 1 October 1847 in London. She grew up in London with her mother, who was widowed when Annie was five, and with an ‘Auntie’, Miss Marrayat, who had offered to support her education having discovered the family’s declining financial means since the passing of Annie’s father.