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.
- ISBN10 3742820125
- ISBN13 9783742820129
- Publish Date 3 August 2016 (first published 1 October 1988)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Hansebooks
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 528
- Language English