Madeleine St John
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Madeleine St John was an Australian writer, the first Australian woman to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.
Madeleine St John by Jerry Bauer
Helena Blavatsky
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, often known as Madame Blavatsky, was a Russian and American mystic and writer who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an international following as the p
Madeleine St John
…stuck with a part-time job for two days a week at an antique shop in Kensington. During the following eight years she attempted to write a biography of Helena Blavatsky but was dissatisfied and destroyed the manuscript. In the early 1990s she decided to write novels. Her first, The Women in Black was published in 1993…
Blavatsky in 1877
An illustration of Yekaterinoslav – Blavatsky's birthplace – as it appeared in the early 19th century
Birthplace and museum of Blavatsky in Dnipro, Ukraine
A painting of Blavatsky and her mother, titled "Two Helens (Helena Hahn and Helena Blavatsky)" 1844–1845