Charlotte Despard

Charlotte Despard

Theosophy and the Woman's Movement

Charlotte Despard was an Anglo-Irish writer and social activist.

Writings

The Union Index of Theosophical Periodicals lists 4 articles by or about Charlotte Despard.

Fiction

• Chaste as Ice, Pure as Snow. 1874.
• Jonas Sylvester. London, 1886.
• A Modern Iago: a Novel. London: Remington and Co., 1879. Two volumes.
• Songs of the Red Dawn. Dublin: Odhla Printing, 1932. Poetry. 16 pages.
• What the Shepherd Saw: a Tale of Four Moonlight Nights. New York: George Munro, 1881. A collection of very short Christmas stories by Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Despard, and others. Despard wrote The White Lady of Hillbury.

Nonfiction

• The Christ That Is to Be. Glasgow: Star Publishing Trust, 1920s. 8 pages.
• [Pamphlet issued by Home Rule for India League]. [London] : Pelican Press, 1910s. Written with George Lansbury. 2 pages. Home Rule for India League.
• Theosophy and the Woman's Movement. London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1913. Riddle of Life series; no. 4. Available at this website.
• A Voice from the Dim Millions; being the true history of a working woman. London, 1891. At least 5 editions.
• Was it Wise to Change? London: Cassell, 1894. Reprinted from Cassell's Magazine.
• Woman in the Nation. [London:] Women's Freedom League, 1910s.
• Woman's Franchise and Industry. Women's Freedom League, 1910s.
• Woman in the New Era. [London:] Suffrage Shop, 1910. "With an appreciation by Christopher Marie St. John."

Additional resources

• The Charlotte Despard Blogspot.
• Broderick, Marian. Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives from History. Dublin: O'Brien, 2001.
• Linklater, Andro. An Unhusbanded Life: Charlotte Despard: Suffragette, Socialist, and Sinn Feiner. London: Hutchinson, 1980.
• Mulvihill, Margaret. Charlotte Despard: a Biography. London; Boston: Pandora, 1989. 211 pages. "Valiant Women" series.
• Roberts, Marie.; Mizuta, Tamae. The Rebels: Irish Feminists. London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1995.