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The lamplighter
Emotional maturity
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Bildungsromans
Romance fiction
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Orphans
American fiction
Women authors
Children's stories
Conduct of life
Women
Fiction, general
Children's fiction
Juvenile literature
Fiction
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 contin…
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