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Writings. As a young woman, Mary Baker Eddy wrote poetry and prose for magazines and newspapers. After discovering Christian Science, she conducted a growing correspondence with thousands of ordinary people, as well as thought-leaders in religion, suffrage, and medicine. Eddy’s most important publication was Science and Health.
Online Resources & Databases. Research & Reference Services’ non-archival collections include historical and contemporary reference and circulating materials. These focus on areas such as the life and works of Mary Baker Eddy, nineteenth-century history, Bible studies, women in theology, contemporary spirituality, and religious history.
Since its opening in 2002, the Library has made available the personal papers of Mary Baker Eddy through its Research Room. Scholars, church members, and other interested visitors have had to come to Boston to access the more than 28,000 letters and manuscripts written by Eddy or her secretaries on her behalf.
Mary Baker Eddy’s lifelong engagement with the Bible had a profound influence on the development of her ideas. In 1877 she married one of her students, Asa Gilbert Eddy (c.1832–1882). He gave her strong support as Christian Science slowly grew in New England and beyond.
Mary Baker Eddy mudou-se de Boston para Concord, New Hampshire, em 1889. Comprou uma casa de fazenda que chamou “Pleasant View”. Ela era bastante atarefada e contava com uma equipe de ajudantes em apoio a seu trabalho. Em 1892, reorganizou sua igreja e estabeleceu a Diretoria da Ciência Cristã para conduzir os afazeres da igreja.
Fellowships. The Mary Baker Eddy Library awards annual short-term research fellowships. The program is designed to support original contributions to scholarship. Relevant areas of research in the Library’s collections include the life of Mary Baker Eddy and the history of the Christian Science movement, as well as fields that include women ...
Research services. The Library’s Research Room is open Monday–Thursday, 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. Appointments are not required. To schedule an appointment outside of normal opening hours, please email research@mbelibrary.org or call 617-450-7218. NOTE: We will be open special hours during the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church: Friday, May ...
