Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel The Minister’s Wooing

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel *The Minister’s Wooing* is a 19th-century work of domestic and historical fiction set in New England that explores Calvinist theology, moral reform, and women’s inner lives against the backdrop of early American society.

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instanceOf novel
work of fiction
addresses New England religious culture
gender roles in early America
tension between doctrine and feeling
author Harriet Beecher Stowe
countryOfOrigin United States
firstPublicationCountry United States
firstPublicationMedium The Atlantic Monthly
genre domestic fiction
historical fiction
hasCharacter Candace
James Marvyn
Mrs. Scudder
hasLiteraryForm prose
hasMainCharacter Dr. Samuel Hopkins
Mary Scudder
hasSubject American history
abolitionism
courtship
family life
theology
hasTargetAudience adult readers
influencedBy Calvinism
New England Puritan tradition
linked to: Puritan New England
literaryMovement 19th-century American literature
literaryPeriod 19th century
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor depiction of New England Calvinism
integration of religious debate into domestic narrative
portrayal of women’s moral agency
originalLanguage English
publicationForm serialized novel
relatedWork Oldtown Folks
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
linked to: Uncle Tom's Cabin
setInFictionalizedVersionOf Rhode Island
settingCountry United States
settingLocation New England
settingPeriod early American republic
theme Calvinist theology
Providence
domesticity
marriage and courtship
moral reform
religious doubt
slavery and abolitionism
social reform
women’s inner lives

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Mary Scudder appearsIn Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel The Minister’s Wooing