TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - artists
KW - Carnegie International
KW - steel industry
KW - Protestants
KW - painters
KW - juried art competitions
AU - Elizabeth Moorhead
AB - Mary Ann Braeburn, daughter of high-society Pittsburghers, defers a marriage proposal from a steel executive in order to pursue her dream of being selected for the Carnegie International, America's oldest competition of international art.
C1 - 1920s
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Oakland; Hotel Schenley; Carnegie Museum; Shadyside; Squirrel Hill; Schenley Park; Bob O’Connor Golf Course at Schenley Park; Carnegie Mellon Univ
C4 - Literary; Psychological; Women’s
CY - Indianapolis
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Carnegie Mellon University is Carnegie Technical Institute; Bob O’Connor Golf Course at Schenley Park is Schenley Park Golf Course.
N2 - Mary Ann Braeburn, daughter of high-society Pittsburghers, defers a marriage proposal from a steel executive in order to pursue her dream of being selected for the Carnegie International, America's oldest competition of international art.
PB - The Bobbs-Merrill Company
PP - Indianapolis
PY - 1930
RN - Elizabeth Moorhead Vermorcken (1866-1955) was born after the Civil War to an old Pittsburgh family. When her father's steel business failed in the 1890s, she lived in Paris a few years and married, but returned after that failed. From 1910 to 1929 Moorhead taught literature at Carnegie Tech. In retirement, she wrote full time, beginning with Clouded Hills, then two other novels and a memoir. She died in 1955 as a resident of the Schenley Hotel in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood and is buried at Allegheny Cemetery.
EP - 298 p.
TI - Answer Before Dark
ER -