The life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the history of Christian Science

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The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science was published in November 1909 in New York by Doubleday, Page & Company. The book is a highly critical account of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, and the early history of the Christian Science church in 19th-century New England.
The material first appeared in McClure's magazine in 14 installments between January 1907 and June 1908, preceded by an editorial in December 1906 announcing the series. The articles were the first major examination of Eddy's life and work, published when she was 85 years old, and became a key primary source for most independent accounts of the church's early history.
The magazine's publisher and editor-in-chief, S. S. McClure, assigned five writers to work on the articles: Willa Cather, who won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for one of her novels; researcher Georgine Milmine; managing editor Will Irwin; Burton J. Hendrick; Mark Sullivan, who became a well-known political columnist; and briefly Ida Tarbell.