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Published in 1859, The Minister's Wooing is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s first full-length novel. Set in eighteenth‑century Newport, a community noted for its piety and participation in the slave trade, the story follows Mary Scudder, who lives with her widowed mother and the Calvinist theologian Samuel Hopkins. Mary is in love with the passionate James Marvyn, but her devout mother and his skeptical outlook create tension. After James sets sail and is presumed drowned, Mary is persuaded to accept Hopkins’s proposal. The novel weaves comedy and romance with historical detail, illustrating how daily life, slavery, and religion intersected in early American society.
First publish date: January 30, 1800
Genre: Historical Fiction/19th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Harriet Beecher Stowe
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