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The Day Must Dawn

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The Day Must Dawn
First edition
AuthorAgnes Sligh Turnbull
Cover artistJohn O'Hara Cosgrave II
LanguageEnglish
PublisherThe Macmillan Company
Publication date
1942
Publication place USA
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages483
OCLC290523
Preceded byRemember the End 
Followed byThe 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,[1] a frontier settlement thirty miles east of Pittsburgh.

The novel is an 18th-century pioneer romance about a Scots-Irish family living in Pennsylvania.[2] 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.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Western Pennsylvania History. Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. 2007. p. 25.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Turnbull, Agnes Sligh (1942). The Day Must Dawn. New York: The Macmillan Company.