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Annetta Gertrude Seabury Dresser (1843–1935) was an American writer and early leader of the New Thought movement.
A former patient of New England "mentalist" Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, Dresser was the author of The Philosophy of P. P. Quimby (1895), in which she argued that Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, had borrowed from Quimby's ideas, although she had developed her own system of thought. Dresser strongly supported Quimby's ideas over Eddy's, and became a "mind cure" practitioner herself. One of her patients was the writer William James.
Dresser was married to Julius Dresser, another New Thought leader and supporter of Quimby. Their son, Horatio Dresser, born in 1866, was the author of several New Thought works, including A History of the New Thought Movement (1919) and The Quimby Manuscripts (1921).
Selected works
- Annetta Gertrude Dresser, The Philosophy of P. P. Quimby, Boston: G.H. Ellis, 1895. OCLC 700959432