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Understanding 9/11Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
xxxiv, 437 pages ; 23 cm
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
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxiii-xxxiv)
"The Lamplighter tells the story of a passionate-tempered orphan girl, Gerty, who is mistreated by a cruel caretaker and subsequently adopted by a kindly old lamplighter, Trueman Flint. Through his love and the religious teachings and loving example of a well-to-do blind woman, Gerty learns to control her emotions and grows to virtuous womanhood. In the end, after silently sufferling many afflictions, she is rewarded by being married to her childhood friend and confidante and by being reunited with her father, long thought dead." -- Allene Cooper
xxxiv, 437 pages ; 23 cm
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
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxiii-xxxiv)
"The Lamplighter tells the story of a passionate-tempered orphan girl, Gerty, who is mistreated by a cruel caretaker and subsequently adopted by a kindly old lamplighter, Trueman Flint. Through his love and the religious teachings and loving example of a well-to-do blind woman, Gerty learns to control her emotions and grows to virtuous womanhood. In the end, after silently sufferling many afflictions, she is rewarded by being married to her childhood friend and confidante and by being reunited with her father, long thought dead." -- Allene Cooper
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