Edward Maitland

According to biographer Edward Maitland , AK first became deeply interested in Anglican theology after the birth of her daughter, while her husband Algernon was studying for the ministry. She began attending classes with him,...

She was recommended to take over as president of the Society by Charles Massey , a past president who had temporarily taken up the position again after the resignation of Dr George Wyld . Once...

Her biographer Alan Pert says that her husband, Algernon , was in attendance, as well as Edward Maitland , when she died, though the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography specifically contradicts this. A week...

AK went on to study in Paris without her husband or her young daughter. She was later joined by Edward Maitland , apparently at Algernon's request.

AK became acquainted, likely at a meeting of the Dialectical Society in London, with author Edward Maitland , a widower who in time became her colleague, co-author, biographer, and apparently, her spiritual soulmate.

Because she was much younger than most of her siblings, Annie had a solitary childhood. She found entertainment in the gardens of her family's home, where she would associate with the flowers on even terms...

By all accounts the marriage was non-traditional; they spent most of their time apart. By 1873 AK had revealed to a friend that the two were liv[ing] as brother and sister. Yet Miller, for...

AK later said she saw The Perfect Way in Diet as a forerunner of the Book [Perfect Way: or, The Finding of Christ, The, by herself and Edward Maitland ], a sort of...

While studying for her degree, AK divided her time between Paris, Shropshire, St Leonards-on-Sea, and London. Her biographer Alan Pert says that when she moved back to Paris in...

During her time practising medicine in London, AK lived at her professional address, 11 Chapel Street, Park Lane. Her friend Edward Maitland lived with her for part of this time as a visitor.

While compaigning for suffrage, AK owned and edited The Lady's Own Paper for a period of about three months, using her married name, Mrs Algernon Kingsford.

With Edward Maitland , AK published her best-known work: The Perfect Way: or, The Finding of Christ, which advances the doctrines of esoteric Christianity (also known as hermetic philosophy). It first appeared anonymously.

With Edward Maitland , AK translated several Hermetic manuscripts, gathered together with annotations, essays on Hermeticism, and an introduction: The Virgin of the World.

The most popular of AK 's posthumous publications edited by Edward Maitland , and the last to bear her preface, was issued by George Redway in London and Edinburgh: Dreams and Dream Stories.

In her final will and testament, AK bequeathed all her unpublished and incomplete manuscripts to Edward Maitland , who released them to the public in the years following her death. These included: a book of...