Research Catalog
The minister's wooing
- Title
- The minister's wooing / by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- Author
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
- Publication
- New York : Derby and Jackson, 1859.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS2954 .M4 1859 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 2 p.., 578 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Mary Scudder lives with her widowed mother in a modest middle-class home. Dr. Hopkins, a Calvinist minister who boards with them, is dedicated to helping the slaves arriving at Newport and calls for the abolition of slavery. The pious Mary admires him but is also in love with the passionate but skeptical James Marvyn who, hungry for adventure, joins the crew of a ship setting sail for exotic destinations. When James is presumed lost at sea, Mary fears for his soul, and consents to marry the good Doctor. With important insights on slavery, history, and gender, as well as characters based on historical figures, it is an attempt through fiction to create a moral, intellectual, and affective history for New England.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- History
- Historical fiction.
- Didactic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Romans.
- Note
- Ex copy bound in dark grayish brown cloth.
- LCCN
- 08016122
- OCLC
- ocm00275588
- 275588
- SCSB-9098324
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library