The Little Minister

by J. M. Barrie

Overview

The Little Minister by J. M. Barrie was first published in "Good Words" magazine, spanning the months January to December 1891. Reckoned to be Barrie's best work, it is one of several novels about the fictional village of "Thrums", said to be modeled on Barrie's home town of Kirriemuir. In 1840's Scotland, a young Scottish pastor falls in love with an educated, radiant gypsy girl, who turns out to be a peeress who impersonates a gypsy and smoothes things over between rebellious weavers and the authorities in 1840 Scotland.

The play version, produced by the legendary Charles Frohman, was a tremendous success in which the star, according to William Winter's review Jan. 10, 1897 "expressed impulse, pertness, perversity, caprice, discontent. mischief, longing, self-will, arch and tantalizing sweetness and charmingly irrational contradictions of an impetuous girl." It was made into a RKO movie in 1934 with Katharine Hepburn and John Beal (as the Scottish Minister). According to Maltin's Movie Guide, "Hepburn was radiant."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788028363031
Publisher:	Sharp Ink
Publication date:	01/01/2024
Sold by:	CIANDO
Format:	eBook
File size:	730 KB

About the Author

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish author and dramatist who is best known for creating Peter Pan. He lived from 9 May 1860 to 19 June 1937. He was raised and schooled in Scotland before relocating to London, where he penned several well-received books and plays. There, he met the Llewelyn Davies brothers, who subsequently served as the model for his works Peter Pan and The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, both of which were based on the 1904 West End ""fairy play"" about an immortal boy and an everyday girl named Wendy who go on adventures in the fantastical realm of Neverland. The story of a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens was first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird. Despite his ongoing success as a writer, Peter Pan eclipsed his earlier works and is credited with making the name Wendy more well-known. After the deaths of the Davies boys' parents, Barrie adopted the boys clandestinely. George V created Barrie a baronet on June 14, 1913, and in the New Year's Honours of 1922, he was inducted into the Order of Merit. Before his passing, he donated the Peter Pan works' rights to London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, which still reaps their benefits.

Table of Contents

I.	The Love-Light	1
II.	Runs Alongside the Making of a Minister	7
III.	The Night-Watchers	17
IV.	First Coming of the Egyptian Woman	30
V.	A Warlike Chapter, Culminating in the Flouting of the Minister by the Woman	42
VI.	In which the Soldiers Meet the Amazons of Thrums	50
VII.	Has the Folly of Looking into a Woman's Eyes by Way of Text	62
VIII.	3 A.M.--Monstrous Audacity of the Woman	69
IX.	The Woman Considered in Absence--Adventures of a Military Cloak	79
X.	First Sermon against Women	89
XI.	Tells in a Whisper of Man's Fall during the Curling Season	100
XII.	Tragedy of a Mud House	110
XIII.	Second Coming of the Egyptian Woman	113
XIV.	The Minister Dances to the Woman's Piping	125
XV.	The Minister Bewitched--Second Sermon against Women	135
XVI.	Continued Misbehavior of the Egyptian Woman	143
XVII.	Intrusion of Haggart into these Pages against the Author's Wish	151
XVIII.	Caddam--Love Leading to a Rupture	161
XIX.	Circumstances Leading to the First Sermon in Approval of Women	169
XX.	End of the State of Indecision	177
XXI.	Night--Margaret--Flashing of a Lantern	186
XXII.	Lovers	196
XXIII.	Contains a Birth, Which is Sufficient for One Chapter	205
XXIV.	The New World, and the Women who may not Dwell therein	211
XXV.	Beginning of the Twenty-four Hours	217
XXVI.	Scene at the Spittal	225
XXVII.	First Journey of the Dominie to Thrums during the Twenty-four Hours	232
XXVIII.	The Hill before Darkness Fell--Scene of the Impending Catastrophe	237
XXIX.	Story of the Egyptian	244
XXX.	The Meeting for Rain	252
XXXI.	Various Bodies Converging on the Hill	259
XXXII.	Leading Swiftly to the Appalling Marriage	268
XXXIII.	While the Ten o'Clock Bell was Ringing	274
XXXIV.	The Great Rain	281
XXXV.	The Glen at Break of Day	285
XXXVI.	Story of the Dominie	299
XXXVII.	Second Journey of the Dominie to Thrums during the Twenty-four Hours	308
XXXVIII.	Thrums during the Twenty-four Hours--Defence of the Manse	315
XXXIX.	How Babbie Spent the Night of August Fourth	324
XL.	Babbie and Margaret--Defence of the Manse continued	330
XLI.	Rintoul and Babbie--Break-down of the Defence of the Manse	337
XLII.	Margaret, the Precentor, and God between	345
XLIII.	Rain--Mist--The Jaws	353
XLIV.	End of the Twenty-four Hours	363
XLV.	Talk of a Little Maid since Grown Tall	369