TY - SER
KW - Scots-Irish Americans
KW - ministers
KW - Irish Americans
KW - farms
KW - Scottish Americans
KW - Protestants
KW - coal industry
AU - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
AB - A mechanical toy nightingale, an heirloom in Violet Carpenter’s family since 1882, is stolen in her Western Pennsylvania rural village.  Nearly all of the locals are suspects.  The community already labels Violet, 25, a spinster, and financial necessity forces her to take in lodgers.  Her vocation is to write poetry and, to her astonishment, both paths lead to double success: 1) a beau; 2) the acceptance of her poems for publication by a Boston firm.
C1 - 1900s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Ft. Pitt; Westmoreland County; Ligonier; Ft. Ligonier
C4 - Literary; Romance
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - A mechanical toy nightingale, an heirloom in Violet Carpenter’s family since 1882, is stolen in her Western Pennsylvania rural village.  Nearly all of the locals are suspects.  The community already labels Violet, 25, a spinster, and financial necessity forces her to take in lodgers.  Her vocation is to write poetry and, to her astonishment, both paths lead to double success: 1) a beau; 2) the acceptance of her poems for publication by a Boston firm.
PB - Houghton Mifflin Company
PP - New York
PY - 1960
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 - 308 p.
TI - The Nightingale
ER -