Annetta G. Dresser (1843-1935) was born in Portland, Maine, and died in San Diego, California. She was a writer, mind cure practitioner, and early leader of the New Thought movement. In 1863, she married Julius A. Dresser, a journalist, editor, and early proponent of the New Thought movement. The Dressers were both patients and among the "first disciples" of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. They studied metaphysical healing in 1882 with Edward J. Arens, a former student of Mary Baker Eddy's, but did not become Christian Scientists. Dresser published The Philosophy of P. P. Quimby (1895), in which she argued that Eddy had borrowed from Quimby's ideas, although she had developed her own system of thought. Dresser strongly supported Quimby's ideas over Eddy's. Her son, Horatio W. Dresser, wrote, edited and compiled A History of the New Thought Movement (1919) and edited and published The Quimby Manuscripts (1921).

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