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The Little Minister

The Little Minister

by J. M. BARRIE (1860 - 1937)

Before "Peter Pan" came "The Little Minister", J.M. Barrie's first published novel. This is not a children's book, but reflections on life in a remote village in Scotland. The story opens with the minister and his mother moving into the village of Thrums, where the minister must earn the respect of the villagers, threading his way through class differences, politics and suspicion of the travelling gypsies. But what would happen if the newly respectable minister of Thrums fell in love with a gypsy woman? And how will her secret impact upon them all? (Summary by Beth Thomas)


3am - Monstrous Audacity of the Woman

A Warlike Chapter, Culminating in the Flouting of the Minister by the Woman

Babbie and Margaret - Defence of the Manse continued

Beginning of the Twenty-Four Hours

Caddam - Love Leading to a Rupture

Circumstances Leading to the First Sermon in Approval of Women

Contains a Birth, Which is Sufficient for One Chapter

Continued Misbehaviour of the Egyptian Woman

End of the State of Indecision

End of the Twenty-Four Hours

First Coming of the Egyptian Woman

First Journey of the Dominie to the Thrums during the 24 Hours

First Sermon Against Women

Has the Folly of Looking Into a Woman's Eyes

How Babbie Spent the Night of August Fourth

In which the Soldiers Meet the Amazons of Thrums

Intrusion of the Haggart into these Pages Against the Author's Wish

JM Barrie, a Literary and Biographical Portrait

Leading Swiftly to the Appalling Marriage

Lovers

Margaret, the Precentor and God between

Night, Margaret, Flashing of a Lantern

Rain, Mist, The Jaws

Rintoul and Babbie - Breakdown of the Defence of the Manse

Runs Alongside the Making of a Minister

Scene at the Spittal

Second Coming of the Egyptian Woman

Second Journey of the Dominie to the Thrums during the 24 Hours

Story of the Dominie

Story of the Egyptian

Talk of a Little Maid since Grown Tall

Tells in a Whisper of Man's Fall during the Curling Season

The Glen at Break of Day

The Great Rain

The Hill Before Darkness Fell

The Love Light

The Meeting for Rain

The Minister Bewitched - Second Sermon Against Women

The Minister Dances to the Woman's Piping

The New World, and the Women who may not Dwell therein

The Night Watchers

The Woman Considered in Absence - The Adventures of a Military Cloak

Thrums During the 24 Hours - Defence of the Manse

Tragedy of a Mud House

Various Bodies Converging on the Hill

While the Ten O'Clock Bell was Ringing