Albertine surveys the media and publicity around the controversial 1898 death of Harold Frederic, London Chief of the New York Times. He then analyzes Robert Barr’s 1901 novel The Victors with its characters depicting a melodramatic and sarcastic version of the Frederic incident. Albertine finds a subtext: the fear of Christian Science “as a new kind of [financial, healing and social] power in the hands of women.”
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