The Lamplighter
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About the author
Maria S. Cummins (1827–1866) was an American novelist best known for her novel The Lamplighter. Published in 1854, it tells the coming-of-age story of the orphan Gerty, raised in Boston by the lamplighter Uncle True. Sentimental in plot and morally instructive in tone, the book was widely welcomed upon publication and made her one of the most popular American women writers of the mid-nineteenth century. The library also holds an Italian translation of the novel, Il lampionaio. Public information about her life is limited; her works focus chiefly on family, faith, and women's growth, written in a warm and delicate style characteristic of sentimental fiction, and they had some influence on the circulation of popular American literature of her time.
