This controversial biography of the founder of the Christian Science church was serialized in McClure's Magazine in 1907-8 and published as a book the next year
Historian Robert Peel traces the influences of Eddy's life, from her early years through the time of her discovery of Christian Science and the publication in 1
Dr. Peel covers the pivotal intervening years of personal struggle (1876-1891), during which Mrs. Eddy labored for the survival of the religion she had launched