The Day Must Dawn

Year of Publication
1942
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
483 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Publisher
The Macmillan Company
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.”
Notes
Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Mt. Washington is Coal Hill; Greensburg is Newtown.
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.
Time
1777-82
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