The Minister's Wooing
By: By Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Publisher: Derby and Jackson
Published: 1859
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 578
Subjects: New England -- Fiction
Other titles: Rare Book Collection.
Description: 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.