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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Christian feminism in The Minister's Wooing: a precedent for Emily Dickinson.

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From: Christianity and Literature
Date: 20020322
Author:Ramirez, Anne West

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

--Luke 12:32

God will not let us have heaven here below, but only such glimpses and faint showings as parents sometimes give to children, when they show them beforehand the jewelry and pictures and stores of rare and curious treasures which they hold for the possession of their riper years.

--Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing

   The Love a Life can show Below 
   Is but a filament, I know, 
   Of that diviner thing 
   That faints upon the face of Noon-- 
   And smites ...

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