Introduction

The Minister's Wooing

by Harriet Beecher STOWE (1811 - 1896)

Harriet Beecher Stowe is today best known for her classic novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. However, that book was certainly not her only remarkable anti-slavery work. In The Minister's Wooing, Stowe takes the reader into 18th century New England, and uses that setting to explore themes of slavery and religion as the background to a domestic story. Mary, the heroine of this story, is a woman between several candidates for matrimony. The man she truly loved is lost at sea, and so she finally decides to marry a minister whom she does not love. Will there be a happy end? - Summary by Carolin

Listen next episodes of The Minister's Wooing:
Chapter I , Chapter II , Chapter III , Chapter IV, part 1 , Chapter IV, part 2 , Chapter IX , Chapter V , Chapter VI , Chapter VII , Chapter VIII , Chapter X , Chapter XI , Chapter XII, part 1 , Chapter XII, part 2 , Chapter XIII , Chapter XIV , Chapter XIX , Chapter XL , Chapter XLI , Chapter XLII , Chapter XV , Chapter XVI, part 1 , Chapter XVI, part 2 , Chapter XVII , Chapter XVIII , Chapter XX , Chapter XXI , Chapter XXII , Chapter XXIII , Chapter XXIV, part 1 , Chapter XXIV, part 2 , Chapter XXIX , Chapter XXV, part 1 , Chapter XXV, part 2 , Chapter XXVI , Chapter XXVII , Chapter XXVIII , Chapter XXX , Chapter XXXI , Chapter XXXII , Chapter XXXIII , Chapter XXXIV , Chapter XXXIX , Chapter XXXV , Chapter XXXVI , Chapter XXXVII , Chapter XXXVIII