Clouded Hills
| Title | Clouded Hills |
| Year of Publication | 1929 |
| Publication Type | Novel |
| Number of Pages or Episodes | 381 p. |
| Language | English |
| Authors | Moorhead, Elizabeth |
| Publisher | Indianapolis |
| City | The Bobbs-Merrill Company |
| Keywords | Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919); artists; Homestead Steel Strike of 1892; Irish Americans; iron industry; ministers; opera; physicians; Polish Americans; Protestants; Roman Catholics; Scots-Irish Americans; Scottish Americans; Spanish-American War; steel industry; U. S. Steel Corporation |
| Abstract | Alison Cuddy, daughter of a Pittsburgh steel magnate, negotiates the grim landscape of an industrial city and her High Presbyterian community while striving for a better life of art and culture. |
| Notes | North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known. |
| Author Biography | 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. |
| Time | 1880s-1900s |
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