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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 (1821–1910), 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 (1893–1929) in 14 installments between January 1907 and June 1908, preceded by an editorial in December 1906 announcing the series.〔("Editorial announcement" ), ''McClure's'', December 1906. *("Mary Baker G. Eddy" ), ''McClure's'', January 1907 – June 1908.〕 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.〔Martin Gardner, ''The Healing Revelations of Mary Baker Eddy'', Prometheus Books, 1993, p. 41. *Gillian Gill, ''Mary Baker Eddy'', Da Capo Press, 1998, p. 567. *Caroline Fraser, ''God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church'', Henry Holt and Company, 1999, pp. 137–141.〕 The magazine's publisher and editor-in-chief, S. S. McClure (1857–1949), assigned five writers to work on the articles: Willa Cather (1873–1947), who won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for one of her novels; researcher Georgine Milmine (1874–1950); managing editor Will Irwin (1873–1948); Burton J. Hendrick (1870–1949); Mark Sullivan (1874–1952), who became a well-known political columnist; and briefly Ida Tarbell (1857–1944).〔Gill 1998, p. 565. *Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, ''Willa Cather: a Memoir'', Ohio University Press, 1992, pp. 64–65 (first published by J. B. Lippincott, 1953). *For Sullivan's involvement, see Peter Lyon, ''Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. McClure'', Scribner, 1963, p. 299 (for background on Sullivan, see Joseph S. Kennedy, ("Columnist's words influence politics" ), ''Philadelphia Inquirer'', May 2, 2004).〕 The original byline on the book and articles was Milmine's, but it later emerged that Cather, who had joined ''McClure's'' as an editor in 1906, was the principal author.〔David Stouck, "Introduction," in Willa Cather and Georgine Milmine, ''The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science'', University of Nebraska Press, 1993, (p. xvff ).〕 The Christian Science church purchased the manuscript shortly after the book's publication, and it was soon out of print.〔Gardner 1993, p. 41; Fraser 1999, p. 139.〕 It was republished by Baker Book House in 1971 after its copyright had expired, and again in 1993 by the University of Nebraska Press, this time naming both Cather and Milmine as authors.〔 ==Synopsis== The material was published by ''McClure's'' when Witter Bynner (1881–1968) was an assistant editor and briefly managing editor. It first appeared under Georgine Milmine's byline in 14 installments between January 1907 and June 1908 as "Mary Baker G. Eddy: The Story of Her Life and the History of Christian Science."〔(Milmine, January 1907 – June 1908 ), 14 articles.〕 The text of the articles was revised and updated for the book, where it was presented in 26 chapters. The articles were preceded by an unsigned, seven-page editorial in December 1906, explaining why the series was being published and discussing the difficulties of the investigation. The author of the editorial wrote: "The Christian Science mind is unfriendly to independent investigation. It presupposes that anything even slightly unfavorable to Mrs. Eddy or to Christian Science is deliberate falsehood."〔("Editorial announcement" ), ''McClure's'', December 1906, p. 217.〕 The publication got off to an unfortunate start by reproducing a photograph on page two of the editorial that purported to be of Eddy, but was in fact of someone else.〔Mary Baker Eddy, ("Reply to McClure's Magazine" ), Christian Science Endtime Center, undated.〕 The criticism of Eddy is considerable. She is portrayed as deceitful, someone who regularly revised her life story, and who was interested only in making money. The authors reproduce witness statements from Eddy's childhood of her having repeated fainting spells as a way of gaining attention or avoiding punishment, particularly from her father, and say that she developed a habit of appearing to be seriously ill only to recover quickly.〔(Cather and Milmine 1909 ), pp. 21–22: "These attacks, which continued until very late in Mrs. Eddy's life, have been described to the writer by many eye-witnesses, some of whom have watched by her bedside and treated her in Christian Science for her affliction."〕 Eddy was widowed when she was 22 years old and pregnant, after which she returned to live in her father's home. Her son was raised there for the first few years of his life, looked after for at least some of the time by domestic staff because of Eddy's health issues. The articles allege that she allowed him to be adopted by one of the staff when he was four, then failed to maintain a relationship with him until he was in his thirties, though they lived near each other. (Eddy has written that she was unable to prevent the adoption,〔Eddy, (''Retrospection and Introspection'' ), p. 20: "After returning to the paternal roof I lost all my husband's property, except what money I had brought with me; and remained with my parents until after my mother's decease. "A few months before my father's second marriage, to Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson Duncan, sister of Lieutenant-Governor George W. Patterson of New York, my little son, about four years of age, was sent away from me, and put under the care of our family nurse, who had married, and resided in the northern part of New Hampshire. I had no training for self-support, and my home I regarded as very precious. The night before my child was taken from me, I knelt by his side throughout the dark hours, hoping for a vision of relief from this trial. ... "My second marriage was very unfortunate, and from it I was compelled to ask for a bill of divorce, which was granted me in the city of Salem, Massachusetts. "My dominant thought in marrying again was to get back my child, but after our marriage his stepfather was not willing he should have a home with me. A plot was consummated for keeping us apart. The family to whose care he was committed very soon removed to what was then regarded as the Far West. "After his removal a letter was read to my little son, informing him that his mother was dead and buried. Without my knowledge a guardian was appointed him, and I was then informed that my son was lost. Every means within my power was employed to find him, but without success. We never met again until he had reached the age of thirty-four, had a wife and two children, and by a strange providence had learned that his mother still lived, and came to see me in Massachusetts."〕 but ''McClure's'' implied otherwise.) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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