Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb

Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb (1841 – April 15, 1895) was an American genealogist and writer.

Titcomb was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. She took interest in genealogy and was the author of Early New England People (1882).[1]

Titcomb was an advocate of what was known in the 19th century as the "mind cure".[2][3] She wrote the book Mind-Cure on a Material Basis (1885). Titcomb believed that disease could be caused and cured by imagination and the mind. According to Titcomb the success of the cure was based on the concentration of thought and not to any underlying theology.[4][5] Because of her theological differences she received criticism from Mary Baker Eddy and advocates of Christian Science.[6][7]

She also wrote Aryan Sun Myths: The Origin of Religions (1889), a book on comparative religion and solar myths.[8] Titcomb was a proponent of the Christ Myth theory, according to a review of her book she held the view that Jesus Christ was a personification of a solar deity.[8]

Publications

References
  1. Anonymous. (1896). The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1896, Volume L. Boston. p. 384. Republished by Heritage Books, 1998. ISBN 0-7884-0865-8
  2. A. M. (1885). The Mind-Cure. Science 6 (150): 543-544.
  3. Anonymous. (1886). Mind-Cure on a Material Basis. British Journal of Psychiatry 32 (139): 409-411.
  4. Anonymous. (1884). Titcomb (Sarah E.) Mind-Cure on a Material Basis. Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record. p. 12. "The mind-cure receives an extended examination, with the conclusion that its success is due to concentration of thought, and not to the theology of the Christian scientists."
  5. Anonymous. (1886). Mind-Cure on a Material Basis. By Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb. Popular Science Monthly 28: 417.
  6. Eddy, Mary Baker. (1896). Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896. Boston. p. 62
  7. "Mind-Cure on a Material Basis". March 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal.
  8. Anonymous. (1890). Aryan Sun-Myths the Origin of Religions. The Open Court 4: 2555.
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