“And again, there was little help forthcoming. Minnesota had a new Republican governor, John Sargent Pillsbury, cofounder of the flour-milling enterprise that would eventually become one of the largest purveyors of foodstuffs in the world. Not above taking government assistance… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
I was afraid to admit feeling ill because even when I was 4 or 5, I knew that my father viewed sickness as a… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
My father was a particularly zealous Christian Scientist, but young Christian Science children, who have little choice but to believe what their parents are… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
“South Dakota’s new constitution forbade the appropriation of public money to provide relief.” — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
“His most remarkable gift, as Laura saw it, was a deep and profound contentment with what he had.” — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
“By 1867, there were only fifty Dakota left in Minnesota.67 That year, a baby girl was born just across the Mississippi, in a little… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
“Three weird sisters in an antifeminist trifecta, they each celebrated in their books the strapping male as a hero, and exhibited a striking dissociation… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
Between the fictional Laura of the books and the even more heavily fictionalized girl of the TV show, we've tended to lose sight of… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
Christian Science has been enormously influential in our religious history, and the church is very powerful. It has won an extraordinary number of legal… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
“One scholar has estimated that a third of Dakota homesteads were held by women a decade later.” — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
Nearly every Christian Scientist I have known has been involved with the Church from childhood and has a long family connection to it, going… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
Christian Science has always appealed to the middle-classes and the upper middle classes. In part, this is because it requires a certain amount of… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
