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Author at Work
Gedruckter Probeabzug, von Mrs. Eddy revidiert
Mary Baker Eddy was a prolific writer. She had written for publication for years before her discovery of Christian Science in 1866. From that year onward, words poured from her.
There were scores of articles, sermons, poems, pamphlets, and books - notably, her textbook of Christian Science healing, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures with its repeated revisions. And there was her voluminous correspondence - literally thousands of letters.
She dictated to secretaries or wrote in pencil or pen in an energetic, fast-flowing hand on a tablet on her lap. She would edit and revise a draft “until it was crossed, re-crossed and interlined from beginning to end,”* according to one of her helpers.
In addition to authoring her own works, she formed a publishing company and established weekly and monthly Christian Science magazines, as well as an award-wining international daily newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor.
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* M. Adelaide Still, Reminiscence, Mary Baker Eddy Collection, Mary Baker Eddy Library
