Little Minister


Before "Peter Pan" came "The Little Minister", J.M. Barrie's first published novel. This is not a children's book, but reflections on life in a remote village in Scotland. The story opens with the minister and his mother moving into the village of Thrums, where the minister must earn the respect of the villagers, threading his way through class differences, politics and suspicion of the travelling gypsies. But what would happen if the newly respectable minister of Thrums fell in love with a gypsy woman? And how will her secret impact upon them all? (Summary by Beth Thomas) (11 hr 11 min)

Chapters

JM Barrie, a Literary and Biographical Portrait
The Love Light
Runs Alongside the Making of a Minister
The Night Watchers
First Coming of the Egyptian Woman
A Warlike Chapter, Culminating in the Flouting of the Minister by the Woman
In which the Soldiers Meet the Amazons of Thrums
Has the Folly of Looking Into a Woman's Eyes
3am - Monstrous Audacity of the Woman
The Woman Considered in Absence - The Adventures of a Military Cloak
First Sermon Against Women
Tells in a Whisper of Man's Fall during the Curling Season
Tragedy of a Mud House
Second Coming of the Egyptian Woman
The Minister Dances to the Woman's Piping
The Minister Bewitched - Second Sermon Against Women
Continued Misbehaviour of the Egyptian Woman
Intrusion of the Haggart into these Pages Against the Author's Wish
Caddam - Love Leading to a Rupture
Circumstances Leading to the First Sermon in Approval of Women
End of the State of Indecision
Night, Margaret, Flashing of a Lantern
Lovers
Contains a Birth, Which is Sufficient for One Chapter
The New World, and the Women who may not Dwell therein
Beginning of the Twenty-Four Hours
Scene at the Spittal
First Journey of the Dominie to the Thrums during the 24 Hours
The Hill Before Darkness Fell
Story of the Egyptian
The Meeting for Rain
Various Bodies Converging on the Hill
Leading Swiftly to the Appalling Marriage
While the Ten O'Clock Bell was Ringing
The Great Rain
The Glen at Break of Day
Story of the Dominie
Second Journey of the Dominie to the Thrums during the 24 Hours
Thrums During the 24 Hours - Defence of the Manse
How Babbie Spent the Night of August Fourth
Babbie and Margaret - Defence of the Manse continued
Rintoul and Babbie - Breakdown of the Defence of the Manse
Margaret, the Precentor and God between
Rain, Mist, The Jaws
End of the Twenty-Four Hours
Talk of a Little Maid since Grown Tall