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Mary Baker Eddy (nee Baker; July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was an American religious leader, Christian healer, and author, who in 1879 founded The Church of Christ, Scientist, the Mother Church of the Christian Science movement.
The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Mary Baker Eddy, author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and founder of Christian Science. The church was founded "to commemorate the word and works of Christ Jesus " and "reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing ".
Born Mary Morse Baker on a farm in Bow, New Hampshire, Eddy was the youngest of six children in a family of Protestant Congregationalists.Her father, Mark Baker, was a deeply religious man, although, according to one account, "Christianity to him was warfare against sin, not a religion of human brotherhood."
Mary Baker (née Willcocks; 11 November 1792 (alleged), [2] Witheridge, Devonshire, England – 24 December 1864, Bristol, England) was an English impostor. Posing as the fictional Princess Caraboo , Baker pretended to come from a far-off island kingdom and fooled a British town for some months.
Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist and author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, was a controversial figure both during her lifetime and afterwards, [1] [2] with most previous biographies of Eddy being "divided between demonizing caricatures and Christian Science hagiography" according to Beryl Satter. [3]
Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), born Mary Baker, founder of Christian Science; Mary Landon Baker (1901–1961), American socialite and heiress famous for her romantic life; Princess Caraboo (1791–1864), English impostor; Mary E. Baker (1923–1995), African-American community activist; Mary Baker McQuesten (1849–1934), born Mary Jane Baker ...
The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science (1909) is a highly critical account of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, and the early history of the Christian Science church in 19th-century New England. It was published as a book in November 1909 in New York by Doubleday, Page & Company.
Mary Baker (fl. 1842 – 1856) was an English painter of portraits and portrait miniatures. She was born in London and produced works for the Society of Arts , as well as exhibiting miniatures and portraits at the Royal Academy over a fourteen-year period (1842–1856).