ABSTRACT
All through the troubles Mrs Besant continued her Freethought work. In 1877 she collected her early pamphlets, the stepping-stones, as it were, in a single volume entitled My Path to Atheism. In 1883 Mrs Besant again turned for inspiration to the French Revolution, bringing out Civil and Religious Liberty, with some Hints taken from the French Revolution, as well as a second series of lectures on the history of the revolution. In 1885 followed Gordon Judged out of hisown Mouth and The Story of the Soudan, and in 1887 England’s Jubilee Gift to Ireland. At about the same time Mrs Besant became interested, no doubt through the need for study in connection with The Law of Population, in scientific subjects. There is no doubt that if they had been free Bradlaugh and Mrs Besant would have married. As it was they neither of them had the wish to indulge in an intrigue, which would, have been fatal to both.
