Samuel McChord Crothers
Samuel McChord Crothers (June 7, 1857–November 1927) was an American Unitarian Universalist minister with The First Parish in Cambridge. He was a popular essayist. [1][2]
Crothers graduated from Wittenberg College in 1873. In 1874, he graduated from College of New Jersey. After earning a divinity degree at Union Theological Seminary in 1877, he became a Presbyterian minister. He resigned in 1881 and converted to the Unitarian church in 1882.
Crothers died suddenly at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[3]
Selected bibliography
- The Understanding Heart (1903)
- The Gentle Reader (1903)
- The Pardoner's Wallet (1905)
- By the Christmas Fire (1908)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Autocrat and His Fellow-Boarders (1909)
- Among Friends (1910)
- Humanly Speaking (1912)
- Meditations on Votes for Women, etc. (1914)
- "A Literary Clinic", The Atlantic Monthly, Vol.118, No.3, (September 1916), pp.291-301 (he coined the term "bibliotherapy" in this article) .
- The Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord (1916)
- The Dame School of Experience (1920)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: How to Know Him (1921)
- The Cheerful Giver (1923)
- The Children of Dickens (1925)
References
- ^ Editorial (November 13, 1927). Dr. Crothers As Essayist. New York Times
- ^ Eliot, Frederick May (1931). Samuel McChord Crothers: Interpreter of life. Beacon Press, ASIN B00087IMZ0
- ^ Staff report (November 10, 1927). Rev. Dr. Crothers Dies Suddenly; Noted Preacher and Author is Stricken at His Home in Cambridge. A Minister at Age of 19 Often Had Occupied Pulpit at Harvard During Long Unitarian Pastorate. New York Times
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