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Frederick William Peabody
1862–1938
A Boston lawyer turned controversial author, he is best remembered for a sharp early-20th-century attack on Christian Science. His surviving record suggests a public figure who moved between law, reform circles, and polemical writing.
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The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian Science
by Frederick William Peabody
About the author
Frederick William Peabody was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 6, 1862, and died on August 15, 1938. Records in the Jane Addams Digital Edition identify him as a lawyer, and library and archive catalogs connect him with published work under the name Frederick W. Peabody.
He is most clearly associated today with The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian Science, a book published in 1915. Title pages and catalog records describe him as being of the Boston bar, which fits with other references linking him to legal work in Boston and to public arguments around Christian Science.
Although not a widely remembered literary figure, Peabody appears to have had a place in larger public debates of his time. His correspondence in the Jane Addams Digital Edition shows that he also moved in reform-minded circles, suggesting a career that reached beyond courtroom work into social and political discussion.