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Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1888–1982)

Autor de The Bishop's Mantle

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Nombre canónico
Turnbull, Agnes Sligh
Fecha de nacimiento
1888-10-14
Fecha de fallecimiento
1982-01-31
Género
female
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
New Alexandria, Pennsylvania, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento
Livingston, New Jersey, USA
Lugares de residencia
Maplewood, New Jersey, USA
New Alexandria, Pennsylvania, USA (birth)
Educación
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Ocupaciones
novelist
historical novelist
short story writer
Biografía breve
Agnes Sligh was born to a Scottish immigrant father and a mother who was a native of the Scottish community of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. This background would contribute to the vocabulary Agnes used in many of her novels. She attended the village school as a child then went away to boarding school because there was no local high school. Later she attended Indiana State Teachers College (now Indiana University of Pennsylvania), graduating Phi Beta Kappa. In 1918, the same year she began teaching high school English, Agnes married James Lyall Turnbull, who left to fight in World War I a month after their wedding. He survived the war and they were married for 40 years, with one daughter. At the end of the war, Agnes Sligh Turnbull sold her first short story to The American Magazine. She achieved success as a short story writer before deciding to write novels. Her first published novel was The Rolling Years (1936), a story of three generations of Scots in Westmoreland County and their struggles to maintain their strict Presbyterian faith in a secular world. Many of her other "Pennsylvania" novels dealt with similar themes. She also wrote four juvenile novels, including Elijah the Fish-bite (1940) and The White Lark (1968). Her early diaries were excerpted in Dear Me: Leaves from the Diary of Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1941). Although her books are mostly forgotten today, in their time they sold millions of copies and got favorable reviews.

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Sometimes you find an older book that is a gem. You manage to overlook some old fashioned bits because the story is good and you care about the characters.

This turned out not to be one of them.

The heroine was in an accident that left her wheelchair bound.A doctor comes up with a crackpot idea that maybe..possibly she could regain her use of her legs if she got married and had baby.Maybe.

"So!" said the doctor. "Many years ago I had a patient in the
hospital in Vienna, a young woman, married only a few months.
She had had a bad accident in climbing a mountain and was
brought in for dead. Gradually she recovered except that her
legs were paralyzed. I did all I knew, to no avail. She went
home, as we believed, never to walk again."
Kirkland was scarcely breathing.
"Yes?" he prompted as the other hesitated.
The great doctor spoke with more difficulty.
"Later her husband reported to me that she was going to have
a child. It was bom in our hospital. I was in close touch with
the case. While she was in desperate labor she stood up, quite
unconscious that she was doing so, and walked across the room
with the nurse's help. Some subtle nerve block in the brain had
apparently been released. Afterwards her legs functioned normally."


Thats almost as bad as an old classic movie I once saw where a girl who was lame was cured by putting liniment on her legs. Oh you crazy 50s doctors.

The love interest is a young lawyer who wants to advance his political career. But how? Through hard work? Dont be silly. If only he could get someone influential to back him...

Anyway back to the plot,her father is a very very very influential man and he hears about the lawyer guy wanting to become a hotshot politician and gets an idea.

"Capital! Ill have him marry my daughter!"

So he puts the idea to him and lawyer/wannabe politician guy agrees tentatively.He goes to their house to meet the girl. She is beautiful and demure and they hit it off right away.

and thats as far as I read before I labeled this book a dnf.
Maybe I will skip ahead though to see if the girl regains the use of her legs.

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Litrvixen | Jun 23, 2022 |
The author seems to have a real understanding of how colonial Americans thought. The voice of the narrator is compelling, consistent, and authentic. But I don't think I could bear to read the book again, it's so full of "savages" and other racist language and attitudes -- and it's hard to read about all the war and atrocities, on both sides. Joseph Brant, considered a hero in Canada, namesake of a county and a city, makes a cameo appearance as a terrifying enemy, which is an interesting viewpoint.… (más)
 
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muumi | Mar 3, 2020 |
A sweet Christmas story about a mom with three grown children.
 
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BoundTogetherForGood | Dec 25, 2018 |
This book has not aged well.
 
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MarthaJeanne | otra reseña | May 5, 2018 |

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Obras
36
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3
Miembros
688
Popularidad
#36,764
Valoración
½ 3.7
Reseñas
5
ISBNs
67
Idiomas
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