Margaret Cousins

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Early years

Activism and imprisonment

Other work

In 1932, when Dr. and Mrs. Cousins were in New York, she organized a vegetarian society. The first public meeting was held in the auditorium of the Washington Irving High School, which happened to be the site of the 46 Irving Place building where the Theosophical Society was founded.[1]

During the 1930s, Mrs. Cousins worked with Dr. Anna Kamensky to establish the International Centre in Geneva, Switzerland.

Musical career

Writings

Dr. and Mrs. Cousins coauthored an autobiography, We Two Together, a lengthy work in which their travels and activities are featured in a lively writing style. It was published in 1950 by Ganesh & Co. of Madras.

  • The Music of Orient and Occident: Essays towards Mutual Understandings. Madras: B. G. Paul, 1935.

Additional resources

Audio recordings

  • Candy, Catherine. Margaret Cousins: Irish Theosophist in Indian Feminism.

Notes

  1. G. C. Huckaby, "The Lamasery," The Theosophist 60.10 (July 1934), 469-470.