TY - SER
KW - Scots-Irish Americans
KW - ministers
KW - Presbyterians
KW - Irish Americans
KW - farms
KW - Scottish Americans
KW - steel industry
KW - coal industry
AU - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
AB - Reverend David Lyall moved his new wife from the city to a rural manse in Ladykirk and expected to stay only a year. Twenty-five years and three grown children later, Lyall is still the spiritual leader of the town’s Calvinist congregation. “The village, with its age-long problems, comes to life in these pages,”  says <em>Kirkus Reviews.</em>
C1 - 1880s-1906
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Westmoreland County; Greensburg; New Alexandria
C4 - Saga; Literary; Christian; Historical
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - New Alexandria is disguised as Ladykirk.
N2 - Reverend David Lyall moved his new wife from the city to a rural manse in Ladykirk and expected to stay only a year. Twenty-five years and three grown children later, Lyall is still the spiritual leader of the town’s Calvinist congregation. “The village, with its age-long problems, comes to life in these pages,”  says <em>Kirkus Reviews.</em>
PB - Houghton Mifflin Company
PP - New York
PY - 1952
RN - The author was born Agnes Sligh (1888-1982) in New Alexandria, Westmoreland County to a Scottish immigrant and his Scottish-American wife. She attended the village school and in 1910 graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Indiana Normal School. She taught high school until 1918 when she married an Englishman, James Lyall Turnbull. The couple left Western Pennsylvania in 1922 for Maplewood, New Jersey, where Agnes lived for 60 years as a fiction writer. She is buried in New Alexandria.
EP - 403 p.
TI - The Gown of Glory
ER -