num_pages: 437
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.
language: English
title: The Lamplighter
titlecomplete: The Lamplighter
characters: Emily Graham, Isabel Clinton, Dr. Jeremy, Gertrude, William Sullivan, Trueman Flint
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Christian, Classics, Historical, Christian Fiction, American, Historical Fiction, Romance, Adult
ratings_count: 1058
places: The United States of America
publisher: Rutgers University Press