Anita Atkins (Sylvia Cranston) (1915-2000). Author, known by her pen name Sylvia Cranston or S. L. Cranston, who wrote books on reincarnation and a biography of Helena P. BLAVATSKY. Anita Atkins was born on Dec. 12, 1915, and spent her childhood and youth living in the Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York. Her formal public academic education ended at High School at which time she then became a self-taught scholar. Her parents both attended meetings at the United Lodge of Theosophists (ULT) in New York City, and Anita’s introduction to theosophy came from her father’s reports of those meetings. (Theosophy World)

Atkins was a UTL (United Lodge of Theosophists) student from the NY Lodge. She wrote under the name Sylvia Cranston. (Theosophy Wiki)

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