The minister's wooing
By: Harriet Beecher Stowe ; edited with an introduction by Susan K. Harris and notes by Susan K. Harris and Danielle Conger.
Contributors: Harris, Susan K., 1945-; Conger, Danielle.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Description: "First published in 1859, 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 and their boarder, Samuel Hopkins, a famous Calvinist theologian who preaches against slavery. Mary is in love with the passionate James Marvyn, but Mary is devout and James is a skeptic, and Mary's mother opposes the union.

James goes to sea, and when he is reported drowned, Mary is persuaded to become engaged to Dr. Hopkins."--BOOK JACKET. "With colorful characters, including many based on real figures, and a plot that hinges on romance, The Minister's Wooing combines comedy with regional history to show the convergence of daily life, slavery, and religion in post-Revolutionary New England."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxv-xxvii).