Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth
An important mesmerizing saga of a woman both magnificently a part ofand gloriously at odds withher own times.
Madame Helena Blavatsky, the founder of Theosophy, was the granddaughter of a White Russian princess. She became the first internationally famous professional psychic and she was also a brilliant occult con artist who drew such figures as G. B. Shaw and William Butler Yeats into her bizarre web. A fervent flower child, she journeyed to the East in search of enlightenment almost 100 years before the hippie hegira of the 1960s.
- Author
- Marion Meade
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 544
- Publisher
- Backinprint.com
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780595151875
- Characters
- Helena Blavatsky
- Genres
- biography, history, mythology, mysticism, magic
- Release date
- 2001
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