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Loading... The lamplighter (1854)by Maria S. Cummins
Work detailsThe Lamplighter by Maria S. Cummins (1854)
  
No current Talk conversations about this book. Not bad, though slow at parts. I have the Lamplighter Publishing copy which I understand has been edited somewhat. The overall story is great but the characters lack some of the depth you'd expect with a book this size; not sure how else to describe it. It seems the author wants you to connect to the characters but because they are lacking something I found it hard to do so. In the end I'm glad to have read it but it won't likely be brought out again. (  ) NeverEnoughTime | Dec 23, 2016 |  Given to my grandfather in 1900 for bringing five scholars into Sunday School. (  ) OnwardToOurPast | May 14, 2011 | no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found. 
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