Women of History: Nelvia Ritchie

Women of History: Nelvia Ritchie

The second woman to serve on the Christian Science Board of Directors was well-travelled and had some interesting stories to tell.

What was Eddy’s perspective on women’s rights?

Mary Baker Eddy made few statements about women’s rights. But we do know that she valued the efforts of the suffrage movement of her day. In 1882 Eddy wrote her student Clara Choate, “Let us work as the industrious Suffragists are at work who are getting a...