Isabelle M. Pagan

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Isabelle M. Pagan was a Scottish Theosophist, writer, astrologer, and lecturer who wrote well-regarded texts on Astrology.

Writing

The Union Index of Theosophical Periodicals lists 27 articles by or about Isabelle Pagan and 2 articles using the name Isabella Pagan. She contributed to Theosophy in Scotland. She also wrote articles for Modern Astrology, as did her sister, Elizabeth H. C. Pagan.

She wrote several books and pamphlets about Theosophy and Astrology.

Books and pamphlets on astrology

  • Astrological Key to Character; the Twelve Zodiacal Types. London, Theosophical Pub. House 1907. 46 pages.
  • An Astrological Key to Character Birthday Book. 1914. Adyar ; [London] : Theosophical Pub. House, 1973. Pamphlet. 70 pages.
  • Astrological Summary and Analysis. London, 1911.
  • From Pioneer to Poet or the Twelve Great Gates: an Expansion of the Signs of the Zodiac Analysed. London: Theosophical Pub. Society, 1911. A second edition was published in 1926, and a third in 1930.
  • The Palace of the King: Rhymed Lessons in Astrology. Edinburgh: Theosophical Book Shop, 1918. Available at Goodle Books and Hathitrust.
  • Racial Cleavage; or the Seven Ages of Man. London: Theosophical Pub. House, 1937.
  • Signs of the Zodiac Analysed. First published before 1911, when an expanded version came out as From Pioneer to Poet. Sixth edition published in London: Theosophical Pub. House, 1978. Available at Open Library.

Books and pamphlets on literary subjects

  • A Defence of Bacon -- and Others. London: Theosophical Society in England, 1926. First published in Theosophical Review, new series vol. II no.8 (August 1926).
  • Has Peer Gynt a Key? London, 2000. Pamphlet.

Plays

  • Mr. Boffin's Secretary: a Comedy in Four Acts. London: J.M. Dent, 1902. Adapted from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens.
  • The Fantasy of Peer Gynt: Being Selections from the Dramatic Poem "Peer Gynt". London: The Theosophical Publishing Society, 1909. Henrik Ibsen work translated into English.
  • The Gentleman in the Next House: a Farcical Comedy in Three Scenes. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1900. Available from Hathitrust, US access only. Adapted from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens by Isabelle Pagan, H. W. Vrooman, and Martha Landis.
  • Sunset in Stratford. ca. 1935. Manuscript in Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare is one of the characters in this play.

Other resources

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