The Minister's Wooing

The Minister's Wooing is a historical novel by
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Set in eighteenth-century New England, the novel
satirizes the Calvinism Stowe had grown up with. While it is often compared to
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850), The Minster's
Wooing takes a different look at the regional history of New England and
connects with Stowe's earlier anti-slavery novels in that it highlights the
issue of slavery, this time in the north. In contrast to Hawthorne's The
Scarlett Let...