Isabel Cooper-Oakley

Harriet Isabella (Isabel) Cooper-Oakley[1][2] (31 January 1854 – 3 March 1914), was a prominent Theosophist and author.

[4] She had suffered a severe injury in an accident aged 23 which prevented her from walking for two years, during which time she intensified her reading.

Whilst at the university, she met — and later married — fellow student Alfred John Oakley.

Alfred stayed some years at Adyar, India, as an assistant to Henry Steel Olcott.

Mead became her brother-in-law when he married her sister, another prominent Theosophist, Laura Cooper.