Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and
died in Boston, Massachusetts. A prolific author of novels, articles, short stories, and
poems, she is best known for her best-selling novel, Little Women, published in 1868.
She was the daughter of philosopher and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker
Abba May Alcott. Louisa May Alcott became interested in mind cure in 1884, undertaking a
course of treatment with Anna B. Newman, a student of Mary Baker Eddy's who had left the
Christian Science movement in 1881. Alcott wrote of her experiences with Newman in an
article for the Women's Journal on April 18, 1885. Her opinions
on the practice were decidedly uncomplimentary. Her article prompted a reply from the
members of the Christian Scientist Association stating that the mind cure to which
Alcott referred was not Christian Science. The reply was published in several newspapers
and the May 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal.
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Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and
died in Boston, Massachusetts. A prolific author of novels, articles, short stories, and
poems, she is best known for her best-selling novel, Little Women, published in 1868.
She was the daughter of philosopher and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker
Abba May Alcott. Louisa May Alcott became interested in mind cure in 1884, undertaking a
course of treatment with Anna B. Newman, a student of Mary Baker Eddy's who had left the
Christian Science movement in 1881. Alcott wrote of her experiences with Newman in an
article for the Women's Journal on April 18, 1885. Her opinions
on the practice were decidedly uncomplimentary. Her article prompted a reply from the
members of the Christian Scientist Association stating that the mind cure to which
Alcott referred was not Christian Science. The reply was published in several newspapers
and the May 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal.
See more letters.