The lamplighter
By: Maria Susanna Cummins ; edited and with an introduction by Nina Baym.
Contributors: Baym, Nina.
Series: The American women writers series
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
Description: 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 ... remained continuously in print until the 1920s ... [and was] second in mid-century popularity only to Uncle Tom's Cabin."--Back cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. xxxiii-xxxiv.