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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.
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Mabel Vaughan (1857)
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Haunted Hearts (1864)
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Haunted Hearts (1864)
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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- Haunted hearts, by the author of 'The lamplighter'. 1864 Hardcover (Lang:- English, Pages 451. Reprinted in 2013 with the hel...)
Maria Susanna Cummins
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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 Mistress 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 (1857), 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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Mabel Vaughan (1857)
(This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)
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Haunted Hearts (1864)
(This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)
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Haunted Hearts (1864)
(This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)
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Haunted hearts, by the author of 'The lamplighter'. 1864 Hardcover
(Lang:- English, Pages 451. Reprinted in 2013 with the hel...)
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Mabel Vaughan (1857)
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