The Day Must Dawn
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1942
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Publication Type |
Novel
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Number of Pages or Episodes |
483 p.
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Language |
English
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Contributors |
Author:
Agnes Sligh Turnbull |
Publisher |
The Macmillan Company
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City |
New York
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Abstract |
A pioneer romance about pains suffered by Scotch-Irish women in frontier settlements who offered up their men to the war. “The story of the Murrays and their neighbors,” says Kirkus Reviews, “of Violet the daughter, who suddenly realized that she was in love with her foster brother, Hugh, and of how Hugh felt he must play a man's part before he declared his love for her. Authentic pictures of frontier life, of the crudeness of the houses and the furnishings, of the superstitions, old wives tales, religious quirks, and of the essential faith in liberty and democracy.”
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Notes |
Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Mt. Washington is Coal Hill; Greensburg is Newtown.
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Author Biography |
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.
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Time |
1777-82
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