Henrietta Frances Lord (1848-1923) was born in London, England, and died in Kent, England. She studied at Girton College in Cambridge, England, for two years. Lord joined the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1881 and was elected a Poor Law Guardian a year later. She is known for translating Henrik Ibsen's Nora (also known as A Doll's House) from Norwegian into English in 1882. By 1883, Lord had become a Theosophist. While traveling to the United States in July 1886, she developed an interest in Christian Science and traveled back and forth between England and Chicago, Illinois, to study with Emma Curtis Hopkins, a former student of Mary Baker Eddy. During the summer of 1886, Lord also helped with an early draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, however she soon abandoned the project as she started to devote most of her time to Christian Science. Lord took ownership of Woman's World, a magazine published in Chicago, in 1886 and became its editor. In October 1887, she began devoting the magazine's messaging to Christian Science by running a regular course of instruction, however by January 1889 it was reported that the magazine had ceased publication. Lord held Christian Science classes in both America and London from October 1887 to July 1888. That same year, she published Christian Science Healing: Its Principles and Practice with Full Explanations for Home Students, which was meant to distribute Christian Science to the masses and be an alternative to paying for courses with teachers. Lord was critical of Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures as an acting authority on the subject. She married Edward A. Williams in 1904, and it is unclear whether or not she continued to practice Christian Science into the twentieth century.

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