The Gown of Glory
| Year of Publication |
1952
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
403 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
Agnes Sligh Turnbull |
| Publisher |
Houghton Mifflin Company
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
Reverend David Lyall moved his new wife from the city to a rural manse in Ladykirk and expected to stay only a year. Twenty-five years and three grown children later, Lyall is still the spiritual leader of the town’s Calvinist congregation. “The village, with its age-long problems, comes to life in these pages,” says Kirkus Reviews.
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| Notes |
New Alexandria is disguised as Ladykirk.
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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 |
1880s-1906
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