The lamplighter
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The lamplighter
（American women writers series / Joanne Dobson, Judith Fetterley, and Elaine Showalter, series editors）
Rutgers University Press, c1988
- : [cloth]
- : pbk
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Note
Bibliography: p. xxxiii-xxxiv
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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