29-490: Perfect Way or The Perfect Way may refer to: Books [ edit ] The Perfect Way (1881), major theosophical work of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland The Perfect Way , poem by eighth-century Chinese Zen master Seng Tsan (僧燦) Music [ edit ] "Perfect Way" (Scritti Politti song) , a song and single by Scritti Politti from their 1985 album Cupid & Psyche 85 "Perfect Way", instrumental version of
58-496: A French woman known for her wit, beauty, intelligence and independence. The name however may be a nod to her new status as ‘Mrs Algernon’. In a letter to Maitland in August 1873, also, signed as ‘Ninon’ she says, "much, you know is permitted to men which to women is forbidden. For this reason I usually write under some assumed name" Kingsford contributed articles to the magazine Penny Post from 1868 to 1873. Having been left £700
87-712: A full-time writer in 1998, writing three books for US publisher ABC-CLIO including An Encyclopaedia of Women Social Reformers in 2001, with a foreword by Marian Wright Edelman . It won an award in 2002 from the American Library Association as an Outstanding Reference Source and according to the Times Higher Education Supplement , 'A splendid book, informative and wide-ranging'. In 2003 Rappaport discovered and purchased an 1869 portrait of Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole by Albert Charles Challen . The picture now hangs in
116-720: A position of authority. Her final thesis, L'Alimentation Végétale de l'Homme , was on the benefits of vegetarianism, published in English as The Perfect Way in Diet (1881). She founded the Food Reform Society that year, travelling within the UK to talk about vegetarianism, and to Paris, Geneva, and Lausanne to speak out against animal experimentation. Kingsford was interested in Buddhism and Gnosticism , and became active in
145-627: A vegetarian diet on the advice of her brother John Bonus. She was a vice-president of the Vegetarian Society . Alan Pert, one of her biographers, wrote that Kingsford was caught in torrential rain in Paris in November 1886 on her way to the laboratory of Louis Pasteur , one of the most prominent vivisectionists of the period. She reportedly spent hours in wet clothing and developed pneumonia, then pulmonary tuberculosis . She travelled to
174-484: A wealthy merchant, and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Schröder. Her brother John Bonus (1828–1909) was a physician and vegetarian. Her brothers Henry (1830–1903) and Albert (1831–1884) worked for their father's shipping business. Her brother Edward (1834–1908) became rector of Hulcott in Buckinghamshire and her brother Joseph (1836–1926) was a major general. Her brother Charles William Bonus (18/05/1839 – 21/11/1883)
203-430: A widower, who shared her rejection of materialism . With the blessing of Kingsford's husband, the two began to collaborate, Maitland accompanying her to Paris when she decided to study medicine. Paris was at that time the center of a revolution in the study of physiology, much of it as a result of experiments on animals, particularly dogs, and mostly conducted without anaesthetic . Claude Bernard (1813–1878), described as
232-471: A year by her father, she bought in 1872 The Lady's Own Paper , and took up work as its editor, which brought her into contact with some prominent women of the day, including the writer, feminist, and anti-vivisectionist Frances Power Cobbe . It was an article by Cobbe on vivisection in The Lady's Own Paper that sparked Kingsford's interest in the subject. In 1873, Kingsford met the writer Edward Maitland,
261-650: The Charité strongly disapproves of women students and took this means of showing it. About a hundred men (no women except myself) went round the wards today, and when we were all assembled before him to have our names written down, he called and named all the students except me, and then closed the book. I stood forward upon this, and said quietly, " Et moi aussi, monsieur ." [And me, Sir.] He turned on me sharply, and cried, " Vous, vous n'êtes ni homme ni femme; je ne veux pas inscrire votre nom ." [You, you are neither man nor woman; I don't want to write your name.] I stood silent in
290-651: The National Portrait Gallery . Mary Seacole features in Rappaport's 2007 book No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War which was praised by Simon Sebag Montefiore as being 'Poignant and inspirational, well researched yet thoroughly readable' and also received positive reviews in The Times and The Guardian . Her 2008 book Ekaterinburg : The Last Days of
319-531: The River Severn , her husband's church. Her name at death is recorded as Annie Kingsford. On her marriage in Sussex in 1867, her name was given as Annie Bonus. Article "A cast for a fortune - The holiday adventures of a Lady Doctor’" December 1877 Temple Bar magazine Helen Rappaport Helen F. Rappaport (née Ware ; born June 1947), is a British author and former actress. She specialises in
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#1732772409767348-703: The Romanovs received many positive reviews in both the UK and US where it became a bestseller. Conspirator: Lenin in Exile published in 2009 gained considerable publicity due to Rappaport's claim that Lenin died from syphilis and not a stroke. Her 2010 book, Beautiful For Ever describes the growth of the Victorian cosmetics industry and tells the story of Madame Rachel who found both fame and infamy peddling products which claimed almost magical powers of "restoration and preservation". Magnificent Obsession
377-729: The Theosophical movement in England, becoming president of the London Lodge of the Theosophical Society in 1883. In 1884 she founded the Hermetic Society, which lasted until 1887 when her health declined. She said she received insights in trance-like states and in her sleep; these were collected from her manuscripts and pamphlets by her lifelong collaborator Edward Maitland , and published posthumously in
406-647: The Victorian era and revolutionary Russia . Rappaport was born Helen Ware in Bromley , grew up near the River Medway in North Kent and attended Chatham Grammar School for Girls . Her older brother Mike Ware , born 1939, is a photographer, chemist, and writer. She has twin younger brothers, Peter (also a photographer) and Christopher, born in 1953. She studied Russian at Leeds University where she
435-556: The "father of physiology", was working there, and famously said that "the physiologist is not an ordinary man: he is a scientist, possessed and absorbed by the scientific idea he pursues. He does not hear the cries of the animals, he does not see their flowing blood, he sees nothing but his idea ..." Walter Gratzer, professor emeritus of biochemistry at King's College London , writes that significant opposition to vivisection emerged in Victorian England, in part in revulsion at
464-602: The Edge was published in 2016 in the UK, where it received many positive reviews. Rappaport is a fluent Russian speaker and is a translator of Russian plays, notably those of Anton Chekhov , working with Tom Stoppard , David Hare , David Lan and Nicholas Wright . "Love is not the right word – I have found all of them intriguing and fascinating, but also at times absolutely infuriating. You don't necessarily need to like your subject to write about him or her but you do need to be curious about them and you do have to want to get at
493-606: The Riviera and Italy, sometimes with Maitland, at other times with her husband, hoping in vain that a different climate would help her recover. In July 1887, she settled in London in a house she and her husband rented at 15 Wynnstay Gardens, Kensington , and waited to die, although she remained mentally active. She died on 22 February 1888, aged 41, and was buried in the churchyard of Saint Eata's , an 11th-century church in Atcham by
522-656: The book, Clothed with the Sun (1889). Subject to ill-health all her life, she died of lung disease at the age of 41, brought on by a bout of pneumonia. Her writing was virtually unknown for over 100 years after Maitland published her biography, The Life of Anna Kingsford (1896), though Helen Rappaport wrote in 2001 that her life and work are once again being studied. Kingsford was born in Maryland Point , Stratford , now part of east London but then in Essex , to John Bonus,
551-456: The characters and fortunes of people", something she reportedly learned to keep silent about. She married her cousin, Algernon Godfrey Kingsford in 1867 when she was 21, giving birth to a daughter, Eadith, a year later. Though her husband was an Anglican priest, she converted to Roman Catholicism in 1872. In her 1868 Essay calling for female equality she uses the pen name ‘Ninon’ and in that article references Ninon de l'Enclos (1620–1705)
580-455: The midst of a dead silence." Kingsford was distraught over the sights and sounds of the animal experiments she saw. She wrote on 20 August 1879: I have found my Hell here in the Faculté de Médecine of Paris, a Hell more real and awful than any I have yet met with elsewhere, and one that fulfills all the dreams of the mediaeval monks. The idea that it was so came strongly upon me one day when I
609-536: The research being conducted in France. Bernard and other well-known physiologists, such as Charles Richet in France and Michael Foster in England, were strongly criticized for their work. British anti-vivisectionists infiltrated the lectures in Paris of François Magendie , Bernard's teacher, who dissected dogs without anaesthesia, allegedly shouting at them—"Tais-toi, pauvre bête!" ( Shut up, you poor beast! ) — while he worked. Bernard's wife, Marie-Francoise Bernard ,
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#1732772409767638-463: The same song by Miles Davis from the 1986 album Tutu "Perfect Way", a song by Sebadoh from their 1996 album Harmacy "Perfect Way", a song by Embrace from their 1998 release Come Back to What You Know EP "The Perfect Way", a song by Costello from the 2006 album Scatterbrain Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
667-538: The title Perfect Way . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Perfect_Way&oldid=611045789 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Anna Kingsford Anna Kingsford ( née Annie Bonus ; 16 September 1846 – 22 February 1888)
696-446: Was an English anti-vivisectionist , a proponent of vegetarianism and a women's rights campaigner. She was one of the first English women to obtain a degree in medicine, after Elizabeth Garrett Anderson , and the only medical student at the time to graduate without having experimented on a single animal. She pursued her degree in Paris, graduating in 1880 after six years of study, so that she could continue her animal advocacy from
725-473: Was an underwriter. By all accounts a precocious child, she wrote her first poem when she was nine, and Beatrice: a Tale of the Early Christians when she was thirteen years old. Deborah Rudacille writes that Kingsford enjoyed foxhunting , until one day she reportedly had a vision of herself as the fox. According to Maitland she was a "born seer," with a gift "for seeing apparitions and divining
754-666: Was involved in the university Theatre Group and launched her acting career. After acting with the Leeds University Theatre Group she appeared in several television series including Crown Court , Love Hurts and The Bill . She later claimed to have spent '20 years in the doldrums as an out of work, broke and miserable actress'... In the early nineties she became a copy editor for academic publishers Blackwell and OUP and also contributed to historical and biographical reference works published by for example Cassell and Reader's Digest . She became
783-616: Was published on 3 November 2011, the 150th anniversary of its subject; the death of Prince Albert . Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography , co-written with Roger Watson, tells the story of Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre . Both authors took part in an event during the Edinburgh Book Festival on 14 August 2013. Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on
812-513: Was sitting in the Musée of the school, with my head in my hands, trying vainly to shut out of my ears the piteous shrieks and cries which floated incessantly towards me up the private staircase ... Every now and then, as a scream more heart-rending than the rest reached me, the moisture burst out on my forehead and on the palms of my hands, and I prayed, "Oh God, take me out of this Hell; do not suffer me to remain in this awful place." Kingsford adopted
841-512: Was violently opposed to his research, though she was financing it through her dowry . In the end, she divorced him and set up an anti-vivisection society. This was the atmosphere in the faculty of medicine and the teaching hospitals in Paris when Kingsford arrived, shouldering the additional burden of being a woman. Although women were allowed to study medicine in France, Rudacille writes that they were not welcomed. Kingsford wrote to her husband in 1874: Things are not going well for me. My chef at
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