From the archives of The vegetarian Society UK:

The Summer of 1946 seems to have been a season of anniversaries and memorials. The Vegetarian Society itself was looking forward to its 100th anniversary and giving its members advance warnings of celebratory plans.

The September issue carried a memorial to Anna Kingsford, who had been born 100 years earlier. Anna Kingsford was also an opponent of vivisection, and had become a vegetarian following the influence of her eldest brother. She decided that the best way to combat vivisection was to study medicine - this was in the 1870s when it was difficult for women to have any kind of professional career! Anna also felt that she had a spiritual mission to spread the word about vegetarianism, anti-vivisection and esoteric Christianity. She went to Paris to study and passed all her medical exams. In 1880 she wrote a thesis entitled "L'Alimentation Végétale de l'Homme" which gained her a diploma. It was published in English under the title "The Perfect Way in Diet".

• Texts of talks and articles
• The Kingsford Commemoration - from The Vegetarian (London), March 1, 1890
• Warriors for Vegetarianism - from the 1957 IVU Congress souvenir book
• The perfect way in diet: A Treatise Advocating a Return to the Natural and Ancient Food of Our Race (plain text 331k) by Anna Kingsford, 1881 (for a better html version of this see www.anna-kingsford.com/..../WayDiettxt-web.htm )
• Dreams and Dream Stories 1886 (text file 471k)
• The story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the New Gospel of interpretation (PDF 9mb) by Edward Maitland. First pub.1893. This edition 1905.
• Lots more at www.anna-kingsford.com