In 2007, The Christian Science Publishing Society began selling Noah Webster’s An American Dictionary of the English Language, also known as Webster’s 1828 dictionary. The goal at the time was to provide students of Christian Science and visitors to Christian Science Reading Rooms with additional study resources.
Interestingly, there’s no record of Mary Baker Eddy using Webster’s 1828 dictionary. For that reason, and because this and other historical dictionaries are available free online, we are discontinuing this product.
Mrs. Eddy did not narrowly confine her research to one reference book, and no single dictionary is key to understanding her writings or enabling a fuller and more effective practice of Christian Science. Useful information, including a list of dictionaries known to be owned by Mrs. Eddy, can be found in the article “What dictionaries did Mary Baker Eddy own?” on the Mary Baker Eddy Library website (mbelibrary.org/dictionaries). Scans of many of these titles are available on websites like archive.org, hathitrust.org, and google.com/books.
