Annie Besant (reference article)

This Wikipedia article on Annie Besant is a tertiary reference source, useful for orienting biographical facts, her early career as a social reformer, her leadership of the Theosophical Society after Blavatsky, and her later political activity in the Indian Home Rule movement, but it is not itself a scholarly biography and carries the ordinary caveats of a crowd-edited encyclopedia: claims are only as good as the citations underlying each sentence, and depth on any particular episode of her long and unusually varied life varies with how much attention that section has received from editors over time. For basic chronology and the broad shape of her career across three quite different public roles it is a reasonable starting point; for close analysis of her theological or political thought, a dedicated academic biography or her own extensive published writings and lectures are the stronger source to consult.