Samuel McChord Crothers
Samuel McChord Crothers was an American Unitarian minister with The First Parish in Cambridge. He was a popular essayist.
Crothers graduated from Wittenberg College in 1873. In 1874, he graduated from College of New Jersey. After earning a divinity degree at Union Theological Seminary in 1877, he became a Presbyterian minister. He resigned in 1881 and converted to the Unitarian church in 1882.
Crothers died suddenly at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Selected bibliography
- The Understanding Heart
- The Gentle Reader
- The Pardoner's Wallet
- By the Christmas Fire
- On Being a Doctrinaire
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Autocrat and His Fellow-Boarders
- Among Friends
- Humanly Speaking
- Meditations on Votes for Women, etc. : "A contribution to the...literature of feminism" that asks women to be "as modest and unobtrusive as men in expressing their opinions"
- "A Literary Clinic", The Atlantic Monthly, Vol.118, No.3,, pp. 291–301 .
- The Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord
- The Dame School of Experience
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: How to Know Him
- The Cheerful Giver
- ''The Children of Dickens''