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Besant
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Besant
Annie, née Wood. 1847--1933, British theosophist, writer, and political reformer in England and India

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bezant
An ornament shaped like a coin or disk; sometimes used in a series in decorative molding designs.


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Joyce takes us through nineteenth-century fictional depictions of nineteenth-century and mainly Victorian London, from Dickens and Harrison Ainsworth to Walter Besant, Mary Harkness and Arthur Morrison by way of R.
In 1899 Walter Besant cited average fees for a monthly periodical of about a guinea per page, a sum which suggests that by the late 1860s Arnold's reputation was placing him in the higher league of periodical contributors.
 
 
 
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