7 rows · · The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe - Free Ebook. Project Gutenberg. 65, free. - Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Ministers Wooing The Love a Life can show Below Is but a filament, I know, Of that diviner thing That faints upon the face of Noon - And smites the Tinder in the Sun - And hinders Gabriels Wing - - Emily Dickinson, Fr/J As Thomas Wentworth Higginson maintains in his essay "A Plea for. The Minister's Wooing by Stowe, Harriet Beecher () Seller MW Books Ltd. Published Condition Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked fine-ribbed cloth. Professionally re-cased with a new, matching spine; very impressi Edition First Edition Item Price $.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is today best known for her classic novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. However, that book was certainly not her only remarkable anti-slavery work. In The Minister's Wooing, Stowe takes the reader into 18th century New England, and uses that setting to explore themes of slavery and religion, as the background to a domestic story. The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe, , Houghton, Mifflin edition, Donate ♥. Browse Harriet Beecher Stowe's third novel is set in eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, a community known for its engagement in both religious piety and the slave trade. Mary Scudder lives in a modest farmhouse with her widowed mother an. Harriet Beecher Stowe ( - ) Harriet Beecher Stowe is today best known for her classic novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. However, that book was certainly not her only remarkable anti-slavery work. In The Minister's Wooing, Stowe takes the reader into 18th century New England, and uses that setting to explore themes of slavery and religion as the.
The Minister's Wooing is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, first published in Set in 18th-century New England, the novel explores New England history, highlights the issue of slavery, and critiques the Calvinist theology in which Stowe was raised. Due to similarities in setting, comparisons are often drawn between this work and Nathaniel Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter (). In The Minister's Wooing, Stowe takes the reader into 18th century New England, and uses that setting to explore themes of slavery and religion, as the background to a domestic story. Mary, the heroine of this story, is a woman between several candidates for matrimony. The Minister's Wooing is the first of Harriet Beecher Stowe's three great novels of New England religion, that weave scenes and folklore of New England life with the debates and religious agonies that led her from her father's Edwardsian revivalist Calvinism to evangelical Episcopalianism. Of the three, The Minister's Wooing is the most satisfying as a story, although Oldtown Folks and Poganuc People give a fuller panorama of old New England life.
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