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George Routledge & Sons, London (c1900). 587p. Publisher's binding, decorative green cloth. Illustrated frontispiece. 8" x 5.5"
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The Lamplighter was the first novel by twenty-seven-year-old Maria Susanna Cummins. It propelled her into a prominence that continued until her early death at the age of thirty-nine. A novel of female development, The Lamplighter is a woman's version of the quest story. Its heroine, Gerty, comes on the scene as a child abandoned in the slums of Boston. Rescued by the kindly lamplighter Trueman Flint, she learns to meet life with courage and honesty. The novel touched the hearts, validated the ideals, and assuaged the anxieties of a huge readership, and it remained continuously in print until the 1920s.
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Given to my grandfather in 1900 for bringing five scholars into Sunday School.
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English
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1854
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587 p.; 8 inches
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A sentimental novel, considered a Bildungsroman, it tells the story of Gertrude Flint, an abandoned and mistreated orphan rescued at the age of eight by Trueman Flint, a lamplighter.
Written by Maria Susanna Cummins, an American novelist.
Written by Maria Susanna Cummins, an American novelist.