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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.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Selected Bibliography
A Note on the Text
The Lamplighter
Appendix: The Epigraphs
Explanatory Notes

Lamplighter American Women Writers

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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: 01/10/1988
      ISBN13: 9780813513331, 978-0813513331
      ISBN10: 0813513332

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements
      Introduction
      Selected Bibliography
      A Note on the Text
      The Lamplighter
      Appendix: The Epigraphs
      Explanatory Notes

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