Editing Augusta Emma Stetson (section)

==Early life and career==
Augusta Simmons was born in [[Waldoboro, Maine]] to Peabody and Salmoe Simmons,<ref name=swihart/>{{rp|364.}} and attended the [[Lincoln Academy (Newcastle, Maine)|Lincoln Academy]].<ref name=mchenry/> She married Frederick J. Stetson and lived in England, India, and [[Myanmar|British Burma]] with her husband, before returning to [[New England]] for reasons of her husband's health.<ref name=swihart/>{{rp|364.}} She studied at the Blish School of Oratory in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], and had started work as a professional [[Elocution|elocutionist]] when in 1884, after attending a lecture given by [[Mary Baker Eddy]], the founder of [[The First Church of Christ, Scientist]], she studied under Eddy at the [[Massachusetts Metaphysical College]].<ref name=brit>{{cite web |title=Augusta Emma Simmons Stetson |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Augusta-Emma-Simmons-Stetson |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica}}</ref><ref name=bates>Bates, Ernest S.; Dittemore, John V. (1932) ''Mary Baker Eddy: The Truth and the Tradition''. Alfred A. Knopf.</ref><ref name=gill/>{{rp|534.}} Eddy's church was based on the healings of Christ Jesus,<ref name=swensen10/>{{rp|2-3.}} and drew both faithful adherents and hostile critics.<ref name=swensen10/>{{rp|3.}} After Eddy's class, Stetson went to Maine and soon began reporting impressive healings herself.<ref name=swihart/>{{rp|365.}} In 1885, she was called to Boston to preach at Eddy's own church as one of five preachers on alternating Sundays.<ref name=mchenry/><ref>Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905) ''[[New International Encyclopedia]]'' (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.</ref> Eddy was apparently disappointed with Stetson's preaching style however, such as her going on stage in immodest dress, and was particularly "mortified" by her at least once "imitating a Negro playing on a banjo."<ref name=gill/>{{rp|694.}}