The Minister's Wooing

The Minister's Wooing

by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Minister's Wooing

The Minister's Wooing

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Paperback

$19.24 
  • SHIP THIS ITEM
    Qualifies for Free Shipping
  • PICK UP IN STORE
    Check Availability at Nearby Stores

Related collections and offers


Overview

Mrs. Katy Scudder had invited Mrs. Brown, and Mrs. Jones, and Deacon Twitchel's wife to take tea with her on the afternoon of June second, A. D. 17-.
When one has a story to tell, one is always puzzled which end of it to begin at. You have a whole corps of people to introduce that you know and your reader doesn't; and one thing so presupposes another, that, whichever way you turn your patchwork, the figures still seem ill-arranged. The small item that I have given will do as well as any other to begin with, as it certainly will lead you to ask, 'Pray, who was Mrs. Katy Scudder?'-and this will start me systematically on my story.
You must understand that in the then small seaport-town of Newport, at that time unconscious of its present fashion and fame, there lived nobody in those days who did not know 'the Widow Scudder.'

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781507848159
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 01/01/1900
Pages: 238
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, daughter of the Reverend Lyman Beecher of the local Congregational Church. In 1832, the family moved to Cincinnati, where Harriet married Calvin Ellis Stowe, a professor at the seminary, in 1836. The border town of Cincinnati was alive with abolitionist conflict and there Mrs. Stowe took an active part in community life. She came into contact with fugitive slaves, and learned from friends and from personal visits what life was like for the Negro in the South. In 1850, the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, and that same year Harriet’s sister-in-law urged the author to put her feelings about the evils of slavery into words. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published serially during 1851-52 in The National Era, and in book form in 1852. In one year more than 300,000 copies of the novel were sold. Mrs. Stowe continued to write, publishing eleven other novels and numerous articles before her death at the age of eighty-five in Hartford, Connecticut.

Susan K. Harris is Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature at the University of Kansas.

Date of Birth:

June 14, 1811

Date of Death:

July 1, 1896

Place of Birth:

Litchfield, Connecticut

Place of Death:

Hartford, Connecticut

Education:

Homeschooled

Table of Contents

The Minister's Wooing

I Pre-Railroad Times 7

II The Kitchen 20

III The Interview 34

IV Theological Tea 46

V The Letter 70

VI The Doctor 87

VII The Friends and Relations of James 101

VIII Which Treats of Romance 118

IX Which Treats of Things Seen 135

X The Test of Theology 149

XI The Practical Test 165

XII Miss Prissy 178

XIII The Party 202

XIV Aaron Burr 208

XV The Sermon 229

XVI The Garret-Boudoir 239

XVII Polemics in the Kitchen 266

XVIII Evidences 276

XIX Madame de Frontignac 285

XX Tidings from Over Sea 298

XXI The Bruised Flax-Flower 307

XXII The House of Mourning 311

XXIII Views of Divine Government 318

XXIV Mysteries 336

XXV A Guest at the Cottage 358

XXVI The Declaration 382

XXVII Surprises 390

XXVIII The Betrothed 403

XXIX Bustle in the Parish 411

XXX The Quilting 420

XXXI An Adventure 438

XXXII Plain Talk 448

XXXIII New England in French Eyes 458

XXXIV Consultations and Confidences 466

XXXV Old Love and New Duty 479

XXXVI Jacob's Vow 488

XXXVII The Question of Duty 496

XXXVIII The Transfigured 510

XXXIX The Ice Broken 514

XL The Sacrifice 522

XLI The Wedding 528

XLII Last Words 538

From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews