 First edition | |
| Author | Agnes Sligh Turnbull |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | John O'Hara Cosgrave II |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | The Macmillan Company |
| Publication date | 1942 |
| Publication place |  USA |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 483 |
| OCLC | 290523 |
| Preceded by | Remember the End |
| Followed by | The Bishop's Mantle |
The Day Must Dawn is a 1942 historical novel by the American writer Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1888–1982) set in 1777 in Hanna's Town, Pennsylvania, a frontier settlement thirty miles east of Pittsburgh.
The novel is an 18th-century pioneer romance about a Scots-Irish family living in Pennsylvania. The mother, toughened by hardships, tries to have her daughter go east to a more civilized life. The novel peaks with the burning of Hanna's Town in July 1782 by British-allied American Indians led by Guyasuta. The story concludes with her acceptance that her daughter will marry a frontiersman and go west to even wilder country.
References
- Western Pennsylvania History. Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. 2007. p. 25.
- Adamson, Lynda G. (1999). American Historical Fiction: An Annotated Guide to Novels for Adults and Young Adults. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-57356-067-2.
- Turnbull, Agnes Sligh (1942). The Day Must Dawn. New York: The Macmillan Company.
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