Prentice Mulford
Prentice Mulford | |
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| Born | April 5, 1834 Sag Harbor, New York |
| Died | c. May 30, 1891 (aged 57) Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn |
| Occupation | Literary humorist, author |
Prentice Mulford (April 5, 1834 – c. May 30, 1891) was an American literary humorist and California author. In addition, he was pivotal in the development of the thought within the New Thought movement. Many of the principles that would become standard in the movement, including the Law of Attraction, were clearly laid out in his Your Forces and How to Use Them,[1] released as a series of essays during 1886–1892.
Biography
Prentice Mulford was born in
Daily Graphic from 1875 to 1881. Mulford was also instrumental in the founding, along with other notable writers, of the popular philosophy New Thought
. Mulford's book Thoughts are Things served as a guide to this new belief system and is still popular today.
His body was found lying in a boat in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, on May 30, 1891, where it had been drifting for several days.[3] He was buried in his family's private vault in Sag Harbor, and later moved to Oakland Cemetery there.[4]
Partial works
- Thoughts are Things (1889)
- Your Forces and How to Use Them (In six volumes, published in 1888)
- The Swamp Angel, 1888
- The Gift of Understanding
- Gift of the Spirit (1904) 1st edition- with an introduction by Arthur Edward Waite
- Gift of Spirit (1917 2nd revised ed.)
- Thought Forces Essays Selected from the White Cross Library (1913)
- The God in You, 1918
- Prentice Mulford's Story: Life by Land and Sea (1889)
References
- ^ "Your Forces and How to Use Them, Vol. 1".
- ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. I. James T. White & Company. 1893. p. 433. Retrieved April 23, 2021 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Prentice Mulford Dead". New-York Tribune. June 1, 1891. p. 1. Retrieved April 23, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Man of Mystery, Long Dead, Had Views of Coue". Brooklyn Eagle. Sag Harbor. October 1, 1924. p. 22. Retrieved April 23, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
- Works by or about Prentice Mulford at Internet Archive
- Works by Prentice Mulford at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Library of Congress page on Mulford
- Prentice Mulford’s work on the Law of Attraction
- California Legacy Radio Anthology - provides access to radio scripts containing excerpts from Prentice Mulford's Story
- New Thought Movement homepage
- 1905 National Magazine article with photos
- 3 short radio episodes: "Canned Oysters" from California Culinary Experiences, 1869; "Piquant Sauce" and "Spelling" from The Prentice Mulford Story, or Life by Land and Sea, 1889. California Legacy Project.
