Blavatsky
Madame (Elena Petrovna Blavatskaya, nee Hahn) 1831–91, Russian theosophist.
Contemporary Examples
Dead Cool: Madame Blavatsky Simon Doonan January 5, 2010
Historical Examples
Ghosts I Have Seen Violet Tweedale
Flowers of Freethought George W. Foote
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. II: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Ambrose Bierce
Palestine Claude Reignier Conder
Flowers of Freethought George W. Foote
Ghosts I Have Seen Violet Tweedale
Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft Henry Ridgely Evans
The Way of Ambition Robert Hichens
The Big Bow Mystery I. Zangwill
noun
Elena Petrovna (jɪˈljɛnə pɪˈtrɔvnə), called Madame Blavatsky. 1831–91, Russian theosophist; author of Isis Unveiled (1877)
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