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Alice Gordon

An early member of the Theosophical Society in India. She and her husband, Lieutenant-Colonel William Gordon, joined in 1879. She became president of the Ladies’ Theosophical Society in Calcutta in 1883. Her interests included spiritualism; she published accounts of her experiences.
Her admission to the Society dates to August 1879. She accompanied the Founders to Benares that December and hosted them and the Sinnetts at Simla in October 1880.  (B. de Zirkoff, BCW 2:xxviii-xxix,xxxiv)
B. de Zirkoff dates her presidency of the Ladies’ Theosophical Society at Calcutta to March 1883.  (B. de Zirkoff, BCW 4:xxix)

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+|description=An early member of the Theosophical Society in India. She and her husband, Lieutenant-Colonel William Gordon, joined in 1879. She became president of the Ladies’ Theosophical Society in Calcutta in 1883. Her interests included spiritualism; she published accounts of her experiences.
-|description=Alice Gordon was an early member of the Theosophical Society in India. She and her husband, Lieutenant-Colonel William Gordon, joined in 1879. She became president of the Ladies’ Theosophical Society in Calcutta in 1883. Her interests included spiritualism; she published accounts of her experiences.
+Her admission to the Society dates to August 1879. She accompanied the Founders to Benares that December and hosted them and the Sinnetts at Simla in October 1880. {{ctd-source|1=[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.2)|BCW 2:xxviii-xxix,xxxiv]]}}
+[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] dates her presidency of the Ladies’ Theosophical Society at Calcutta to March 1883. {{ctd-source|1=[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.4)#xxix|BCW 4:xxix]]}}
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+|mentioned in=[[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.2)|Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations]] ([[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.2)|BCW 2:xxviii-xxix,xxxiv]]); [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.4)|Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.4)]] ([[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.4)#xxix|BCW 4:xxix]])
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-== Contributions to The Theosophist, volume 1 ==
-* Missions in India. January 1880, vol. 1, no. 4, p. 100. ID: 001-0100-01.
-== Sources ==
-* [https://theosophy.wiki/en/Alice_Gordon Biographical source].
-* [https://theosophy.wiki/en/Alice_Gordon Theosophy Wiki: Alice Gordon].
-* [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/Theosophist/Vol1 The Theosophist, vol. 1 (1879–1880)]: the cited articles and the volume’s Names of Contributors.
-* The Theosophist 1879 - 1885 Reference.xlsx, volume 1 entries; used as a finding aid, with attributions checked against the journal.