Lamplighter
Maria S. Cummins
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‘The Lamplighter’ is a sentimental novel written by Maria Susanna Cummins and published in 1854. It was Cummins’s first novel and was an immediate best-seller, selling 20,000 copies in twenty days. The work sold 40,000 in eight weeks, and within five months it had sold 65,000. At the time it was second in sales only to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’. It sold over 100,000 copies in Britain and was translated into multiple different languages.