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Annie Besant, An Autobiography Illustrated LONDON SECOND EDITION From a photograph by H.S. Mendelssohn, 27, Cathcart Road, South Kensington, London Annie Besant 1885 PREFACE It is a difficult thing to tell the story of a life, and yet more difficult when that life is ones own. At the best, the telling has a savour of vanity, and the only excuse for the proceeding is that the life, being an average one, reflects many others, and in troublous times like ours may give the experience of many rather than of one. And so the autobiographer does his work because he thinks that, at the cost of some u