Clouded Hills

Year of Publication
1929
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
381 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Elizabeth Moorhead
Publisher
Indianapolis
City
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Genre
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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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