Francesca Arundale was an English theosophist and freemason.

She became a member of the Theosophical Society Adyar

Theosophical Society Adyar

The Theosophy Society - Adyar is the name of a section of the Theosophical Society founded by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and others in 1875. Its headquarters moved with Blavatsky and president Henry Steel Olcott to Adyar, an area of Chennai in 1883...

 in 1881 and was a close friend of Helena Blavatsky and Annie Besant

Annie Besant

Annie Besant was a prominent British Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule.She was married at 19 to Frank Besant but separated from him over religious differences. She then became a prominent speaker for the National Secular Society ...

. In 1896 she became a member of Le Droit Humain

Le Droit Humain

The International Order of Co-Freemasonry Le Droit Humain is a global Masonic Order, membership of which is available to men and women on equal terms, regardless of nationality, religion or ethnicity. The Order is founded on the ancient teachings and traditions of Freemasonry, using Masonic ritual...

. She also participated at Besant's foundation of the first London Lodge of "Le Droit Humaine".
She also lived many years in Germany. In 1902 she moved to Adyar. Her adopted son, who was also her great-nephew, George Arundale

George Arundale

Dr. George Sidney Arundale was a theosophist, freemason, president of the Theosophical Society Adyar and bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church...

later became president of the Theosophical Society Adyar. In India she was especially active in the Varanasi branch of the T.S.

Works

• Idea of Rebirth Including a Translation of an Essay on Re-incarnation. Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish 1998; ISBN 0-7661-0585-7
• My Guest, H.P. Blavatsky. Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish 2004; ISBN 0-7661-9125-7