Mrs Annie Besant’s popularity and influence with the London democracy are undoubted. There is a wonderful magnetic attraction about her, Her face in repose can hardly be called handsome, but when animated her dark Irish eyes flash fire, and as one of her lady friends once said to me, “ she has one of the sweetest smiles I have ever seen." Her short, curling hair and the somewhat peculiar attire which she affects add to the individuality of her appearance, But her eloquence is after all the greatest attraction, I have heard her speak time after time, and always with! a renewed sense of her graphic power and deep earnestness. At the debates of the Fabian Society, the socialist body of which she is a member, she is the only speaker whom you feel to possess a thorough grasp of the socialist problem. As regards energy and downright hardwork, very few women otm af.proaoh Annie Hasan*.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 350, 12 September 1889, Page 2
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155Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 350, 12 September 1889, Page 2
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