The Minister’s Wooing

novel by Stowe

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The Minister's Wooing is a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1859. It is set in Newport, Rhode Island, and focuses on the romantic entanglements of a young woman named Mary and her suitor, Captain Hunniwell. The novel explores themes of love, duty, and religious faith within the context of 18th-century New England society.1

Stowe, also famous for her anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, wrote The Minister's Wooing during a prolific period of her literary career. While not as widely known as her most famous work, it offers insight into Stowe's exploration of social and moral themes in American life.1

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Harriet Beecher Stowe
…letters, writing novels, of which The Minister’s Wooing (1859) is best known, many studies of social life in both fiction and essay, and a small volume of religious poems. An article she published in The Atlantic in 1869, in which she alleged that Lord Byron had had an incestuous affair…
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…letters, writing novels, of which The Minister’s Wooing (1859) is best known, many studies of social life in both fiction and essay, and a small volume of religious poems. An article she published in The Atlantic in 1869, in which she alleged that Lord Byron had had an incestuous affair…
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