After Cather was offered an editorial position at "McClure's Magazine" in 1906, she moved to New York City. During her first year at "McClure's", she ghostwrote a critical biography of the religious leader Mary Baker Eddy, crediting freelance researcher Georgine Milmine instead. While Milmine had performed copious amounts of research, she did not have the resources to produce a manuscript independently, instead employing Cather. This biography was serialized in "McClure's" over the next eighteen months, and then published in book form. "McClure's" also serialized Cather's first novel, "Alexander's Bridge" (1912). While most reviews were favorable, such as "The Atlantic" calling the writing "deft and skillful", Cather herself soon saw the novel as weak and shallow.