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Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth

An important mesmerizing saga of a woman both magnificently a part of—and gloriously at odds with—her 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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 544
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780595151875
  • Characters
  • Helena Blavatsky
  • Genres
  • biography, history, mythology, mysticism, magic
  • Release date
  • 2001