H. P. Blavatsky

• Theosophical Society

Annie Besant, Charles Webster Leadbeater, A. P. Sinnett, W. B. Yeats.

Isis Unveiled (New York: Bouton, 1877)

The Secret Doctrine (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1893)

The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett and other Miscellaneous Letters, transcribed, compiled and with an introduction by A. T. Barker (London T. Fisher Unwin, 1925)

There are many books on Blavatsky and Theosophy. Below is a very small selection:

Bechhofer Roberts, C. E. ('Ephesian'), The Mysterious Madame: A Life of Madame Blavatsky (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1931)

Besant, Annie, H. P. Blavatsky and the Masters of Wisdom (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1907)

Cranston, Sylvia, HPB: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky (New York: Putnam, 2003)

Davenport-Hines, Richard, ‘Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (1831–1891)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/40930]

Fuller, Jean Overton, Blavatsky and Her Teachers (Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House, 1988)

Sinnett, A. P., The Early Days of Theosophy in Europe (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1922)

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