The Lieutenant-Governor

Year of Publication
1903
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
269 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Guy Wetmore Carryl
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
City
Boston
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Abstract
An anti-labor fable set in Alleghenia, a factitious state resembling Western Pennsylvania. Governor Elijah Abbot, elected by a labor-reform coalition, actively supports a mill strike, but mill owner Peter Rathbawne refuses to make concessions. When Abbot is shot, Lieutenant-Governor John Barclay heroically declares martial law and breaks the strike.
Author Biography
Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873-1904) was born in New York and graduated in 1895 from Columbia. He was a writer for popular magazines and is best known as a humorist and poet of light verse. After fighting a fire in his home, he died at age 31 in New York.
Time
1900s
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