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The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science  
Author: Willa Cather
ISBN: 080326349X
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
   Book Review

From Publishers Weekly
The reissue of this 1909 biography, originally attributed to Milmine but actually written by Cather, will most interest Cather scholars. Although much of the work is rendered in pedestrian prose, academics can search its pages for evidence of the author's developing style and, as Stouck points out in his introduction, elements of Eddy's character that seem to surface in Cather's later fictional creations. When it was first published, near the end of Eddy's life, the book caused a ripple in the Christian Science community--and no wonder, since it methodically and convincingly portrays their church's founder, a shrewd and forceful woman, as temperamental, greedy, vindictive and genuinely eccentric. Discussed are Eddy's early years in New Hampshire, her tutelage under Phineas P. Quimby, who had never studied medicine and who "professed to make his patients well and happy purely by the benevolent power of mind," her work as a "teacher of moral science," the evolution of her book Science and Health and Christian Science's development from a handful of enthusiastic healers to a full-grown institution with its "Mother Church" in Boston. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.




The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"As the strange drama of Mrs. Eddy's life unfolds in the narrative we become aware of Willa Cather, the burgeoning novelist with a powerful and sympathetic interest in human psychology."-David Stouck

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

The reissue of this 1909 biography, originally attributed to Milmine but actually written by Cather, will most interest Cather scholars. Although much of the work is rendered in pedestrian prose, academics can search its pages for evidence of the author's developing style and, as Stouck points out in his introduction, elements of Eddy's character that seem to surface in Cather's later fictional creations. When it was first published, near the end of Eddy's life, the book caused a ripple in the Christian Science community--and no wonder, since it methodically and convincingly portrays their church's founder, a shrewd and forceful woman, as temperamental, greedy, vindictive and genuinely eccentric. Discussed are Eddy's early years in New Hampshire, her tutelage under Phineas P. Quimby, who had never studied medicine and who ``professed to make his patients well and happy purely by the benevolent power of mind,'' her work as a ``teacher of moral science,'' the evolution of her book Science and Health and Christian Science's development from a handful of enthusiastic healers to a full-grown institution with its ``Mother Church'' in Boston. (Feb.)

     



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