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The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science
Willa Cather
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Paperback.
This controversial biography of the founder of the Christian Science church was serialized in McClure's Magazine in 1907-8 and published as a book the next year. It disappeared almost overnight and has been difficult to find ever since. Although a Canadian mewspaperwoman named Georgine Milmine collected the material and was credited as the author, The Life Of Mary Baker G. Eddy was actually written by Willa Cather, an editor at McClure's at that time.
This controversial biography of the founder of the Christian Science church was serialized in McClure's Magazine in 1907-8 and published as a book the next year. It disappeared almost overnight and has been difficult to find ever since. Although a Canadian mewspaperwoman named Georgine Milmine collected the material and was credited as the author, The Life Of Mary Baker G. Eddy was actually written by Willa Cather, an editor at McClure's at that time.
In his introduction to this Bison Book edition, David Stouck reveals new evidence of Cather's authorship of The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy. He discusses her ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press Lincoln
Condition
New
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803263499
SKU
V9780803263499
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99-1
About Willa Cather
David Stouck is a professor of English at Simon Fraser University and the author of Willa Cather's Imagination.
Reviews for The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science
"Willa Cather is indisputably the author of The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science. For readers and students today it presents an important profile of Cather's developing voice and a glimpse of subjects and styles that would be her special stock in trade. As the strange drama of Mrs. Eddy's life unfolds in the ... Read more