Anita Trueman Pickett: New Thought Preacher

by Lyn Burnstine

Skinner House Books in 1999, 208 pp.

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This is an inspiring true story of an amazing woman who juggled Unitarian ministry, motherhood and commitment to early feminism--a trail-blazer whose trails got erased in the patriarchal preservation of history.

A preacher of "New Thought" philosophy, protègè of Edwin Markham, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, John Burroughs and Swami Abhedenanda, public speaker, poet and author, Anita Pickett (1881-1960) was instrumental in the founding of Rowe Camp in Massachusetts.

Anita’s story helps us to understand women’s ongoing struggle, and how the world, as it was for women in the early part of the 20th century, robbed her of many of her dreams. Yet, nothing ever successfully diverted her from her chosen path of spiritual leader, as she spread her message of New Thought throughout sixty-four years of her eighty-year life span.

She said, “Our granddaughters ought to have some record of the revolution which brought them liberty.” That record is incomplete without Anita.

This book brings Unitarian and women's history to life.

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