Minister's Wooing
Author: first_name: Harriet Beecher
last_name: Stowe
Language: English
Year: 1859

Harriet Beecher Stowe is today best known for her classic novel <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i>. However, that book was certainly not her only remarkable anti-slavery work. In <i>The Minister's Wooing</i>, 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