1. Besant A.Political Status of Women1874, 2nd edn C. Watts London 1885 10, 12 Besant A.Marriage As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be: a plea for reform1879, 2nd edn Freethought Publishing Co London 1882 57
2. Ibid., p. 2. These views were presumably only theoretical, in that Besant had deplored her marital sexual relationship Besant A.An AutobiographyT. Fisher Unwin London 1893 71 and she lived an ostensibly celibate life after her separation from her husband