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Maria Susanna Cummins

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Born: April 08 1827

Died: 3030 09 18661866

Miss Maria Susanna Cummins was an American novelist.

Maria Susanna Cummins was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on April 9, 1827. She was the daughter of Honorable David Cummins and Maria F. Kittredge, and was the eldest of four children from that marriage. The Cummins family resided in the neighborhood of Dorchester in Boston, Massachusetts. Cummins' father encouraged her to become a writer at an early age. She studied at Mrs. Charles Sedgwick's Young Ladies School in Lenox, Massachusetts.

In 1854, she published the novel The Lamplighter, a sentimental book which was widely popular and which made its author well-known. One reviewer called it "one of the most original and natural narratives". Within eight weeks, it sold 40,000 copies and totaled 70,000 by the end of its first year in print. She wrote other books, including Mabel Vaughan , none of which had the same success. Cummins also published in some of the popular periodicals of her day.

Cummins died in Dorchester after a period of illness on October 1, 1866.

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Maria Susanna Cummins

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Mabel Vaughan (1857)

The Read-Aloud Treasury Vol. 5 - Character Building Stories

Tajemnica Gerty

El Fureidis

Little Gerty; or, The first prayer (From the lamplighter)

De Lantaarnman, deel 1

The Lamplighter

De Lantaarnman, deel 2

Haunted Hearts

El Fureidîs, Volume 2

The Lamplighter Picture Book, or the Story of Uncle True and Little Gerty, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

The Lamplighter

The Lamplighter