A Teacher
Frances Lord
She carried mental-healing across the Atlantic and planted New Thought in Britain.
The transmission
Henrietta Frances Lord was an English writer and women’s rights advocate who became one of the figures who brought New Thought and mental-healing ideas to Britain.
After encountering Christian Science in the United States, she wrote ‘Christian Science Healing: Its Principles and Practice’ (1888), published in both London and Chicago. The book presented mental and spiritual healing for a British and home-study readership, treating sickness as an illusion correctable through right understanding.
She was also active as a translator of Ibsen and a campaigner for women’s causes.
What they gave
New Thought to Britain: Helped transplant New Thought and mental-healing ideas across the Atlantic into the British scene.
- A widely circulated text: Wrote ‘Christian Science Healing: Its Principles and Practice’ (1888), published in both London and Chicago for a home-study readership.
- Sickness as correctable illusion: Presented mental and spiritual healing as the correction of illusion through right understanding.
- Reform alongside healing: Combined her healing work with activism, including translating Ibsen and campaigning for women’s causes.
In their words
To deny the power and reality of evil is not to license but destroy it.
Your idea of God is written upon your face.
The line they stand in
Taught by / Influenced by: the Christian Science and mental-healing currents of Emma Curtis Hopkins and Phineas Quimby.
- Taught / Influenced: Emma Curtis Hopkins and the emerging British New Thought scene.
Revelations they taught
Essential Works
- Christian Science Healing: Its Principles and Practice1888