1. The writer would like to thank Lenore D. Hanks, Robert Peel, Lee Zeunert Johnson, Paul Stark Seeley, Elizabeth Boone Nunn, Abraham W. Hertzka, Lydia A. May, Juanita Morris, Virginia McCullough, Kenneth W. Porter, Edwin R. Bingham, Jack P. Maddex, Stanley P. Hirshson, Stephen R. Howard, Judith Hunneke, and Carolyn Petersenn
2. 1 The first edition by Mary Baker Eddy was entitled simply Science and Health (Boston, 1875). The present subtitle was added in the third edition (Boston, 1881).
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4. 2 Stephen Gottschalk, The Emergence of Christian Science in American Religious Life (Berkeley, 1973), 278. The best general history of American religion is Edwin Scott Gaustad, A Religious History of America (1966; New York, 1990).
5. 3 The most scholarly biography of Eddy is the three-volume church-sponsored work. Robert Peel, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery (New York, 1966), Peel, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Trial (New York, 1971), and Peel, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Authority (New York, 1977). Gillian Gill,Mary Baker Eddy (Reading, Mass., 1998) takes a strikingly different feminist perspective. On the movement, see Gottschalk, The Emergence of Christian Science; Thomas Christopher Johnsen, "Christian Science and the Puritan Tradition" (Ph.D. dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 1983); Stuart E. Knee,Christian Science in the Age of Mary Baker Eddy, (Westport, Conn., 1994); Paul Eli Ivey, Prayers in Stone: Christian Science Architecture in the United States (Urbana, Ill., 1999); and Penny Hansen, "Woman's Hour: Feminist Implications of Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science Movement, 1885-1910" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 1981). William B. Johnson, The History of the Christian Science Movement (2 vols., Brookline, Mass., 1926), a detailed, frank, first-person account, covers the period through the completion of the original edifice of The Mother Church in 1894.