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| [[File:Isabelle Cooper-Oakley ca1893.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Isabelle Cooper-Oakley, around 1893, Sydney, Australia]] | | #REDIRECT [[Isabel Cooper-Oakley]] |
| '''Isabelle Cooper-Oakley''' was an English Theosophist who went to India with her husband [[A. J. Cooper-Oakley]] and [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|H. P. Blavatsky]] in 1884. She returned to England the next year while her husband stayed on in India.<ref>George E. Linton and Virginia Hanson, eds., ''Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett'' (Adyar, Chennai, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1972), 224.</ref> She was a member of HPB's [[Inner Group]] in London. Around 1893 she visited Sydney, Australia.
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| [[Henry Steel Olcott]] wrote to [[Francesca Arundale]] that "Mrs. Oakley has made the greatest hit among them all, and is vastly popular already" following her lectures at the 1884 annual convention at the [[Adyar (campus)|Adyar headquarters]] of the [[Theosophical Society]]. He further reported that the Oakleys had been appointed to a Central Committee formed "to receive and digest further Esoteric Teachings, and transmit it to the Inner Group of Branches."<ref>H. S. Olcott to Francesca Arundale, December 31, 1881. Published in "Letters of H. S. Olcott to Francesca Arundale," ''The Theosophist'' 53.12 (September, 1932), 727-728.</ref>
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| == Notes ==
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| == Additional resources ==
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| * [[The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (book)|''The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett'']] 3rd edition, pp. 462, 466-67.
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| * [[Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom (book)|''Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom'']] I: 113-16.
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| * [[Damodar and the Pioneers of the Theosophical Movement (book)|Damodar and the Pioneers of the Theosophical Movement]], p. 566.
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| * [[A Short History of the Theosophical Society (book)|A Short History of the Theosophical Society]] - see index.
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| [[Category:Associates of HPB|Cooper-Oakley, Isabelle]]
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| [[Category:Nationality English|Cooper-Oakley, Isabelle]]
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