TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cummins,Maria S.
TI  - The Lamplighter
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Orphans -- Fiction
KW  - Christian life -- Fiction
KW  - Courtship -- Fiction
KW  - Child abuse -- Fiction
KW  - Success -- Fiction
KW  - Poverty -- Fiction
KW  - Kindness -- Fiction
KW  - Blind children -- Fiction
KW  - Social status -- Fiction
KW  - Diligence -- Fiction
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lamplighter; Release date is 2010-04-02; Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Mary Meehan and
the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
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N2  - "The Lamplighter" by Maria S. Cummins is a novel published in 1854. This female coming-of-age story follows Gertrude Flint, an abandoned orphan rescued at age eight by a kind lamplighter from her abusive guardian. Raised with love and religious faith, Gertrude transforms from a mistreated child into a moralistic woman. Her journey of suffering and virtue ultimately leads to unexpected rewards in adulthood. An immediate bestseller, the novel sold over 40,000 copies in eight weeks and became a cultural phenomenon of its era. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31869
ER  -