Minister's Wooing
Chapter 1 of 48 Introduction
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- Running time
- 14 h 10 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Amy Deuchler, Denise Nordell, Eva Davis (d. 2025), J. M. Smallheer, Jim Locke and 3 others
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About this recording
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. Mary, the heroine of this story, is a woman between several candidates for matrimony. The man she truly loved is lost at sea, and so she finally decides to marry a minister whom she does not love. Will there be a happy end? - Summary by Carolin