Many a Green Isle
| Year of Publication |
1968
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
262 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 |
Gavin McAllister, a professor at a conservative college, never finished his Ph.D. because he put family first. When he is not promoted to English department chair, things turn worse as he learns that his daughter is pregnant by one of his star students.
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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 |
1960s
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