Excerpt from the lamplighterhaunted hearts she became a frequent. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Go search your store deals store gift cards sell help. Cummins father encouraged her to become a writer at an. The cummins family resided in the neighborhood of dorchester in boston, massachusetts. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone.
Book from the collections of harvard university language english. Its heroine, gerty, comes on the scene as a child abandoned in the slums of boston. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Maria susanna cummins april 9, 1827 october 1, 1866 was an american novelist.
Listen to lamplighter audiobook by maria susanna cummins. The lamplighter, one of the more popular books in the country when it was released in the mid19th century, is an engaging story of an undisciplined and unloved girl who has her life transformed, by providence, through the love of strangers, whose ties to her are greater than anyone initially suspects. In 1854, she published the novel the lamplighter, a sentimental book which. When nan, in one of her tantrums, threw gertrude away from her house, he took her into his care. The book was published in multiple languages including, consists of 256 pages and is available in hardcover format.
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Maria susanna cummins 18271866 gertrude began life as an abused child in the care of nan grant, a cold and cruel woman. In adulthood, she is rewarded for her many tribulations by marriage to a childhood friend. Top american libraries canadian libraries universal library community texts project gutenberg biodiversity heritage library childrens library. A second teacher enters in the form of saintly, blind emily graham, who brings a reverence for god into gertys life.
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