Maria Susanna Cummins
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Biography
Maria Susanna Cummins was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on April 9, 1827. She was the daughter of David Cummins and Maria F. Kittredge, and was the eldest of four children. 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.[1]
In 1854, she published the novel The Lamplighter. One reviewer called it "one of the most original and natural narratives".[2] Within eight weeks, it sold 40,000 copies and totaled 70,000 by the end of its first year in print.[3] She wrote other books, including Mabel Vaughan (1857).
Cummins died in Dorchester after a period of illness on October 1, 1866, aged 39.[4]
Selected bibliography
- 1854 : The Lamplighter
- 1857 : Mabel Vaughan
- 1860 : El Fureidis
- 1864 : A Talk About Guides
- 1864 : Haunted Hearts
- 1865 : Around Mull
Further reading
- Dictionary of Literary Biography. 1978ff. Detroit. Gale Research Company.
- Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. 1971. Ed. Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James & Paul S. Boyer. 3 Bde. Cambridge, MA. The Belknap Press of Harvard UP.
References
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- ↑ Cummins, Maria Susanna - Introduction
- ↑ Riegel, Robert Edgar. American Women: A Story of Social Change. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1970: 166. Template:ISBN
- ↑ Bell, Michael Davitt. "Women's Fiction and the Literary Marketplace in the 1850s", Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation: Selected Essays on American Literature. University of Chicago Press, 2001: 141. Template:ISBN
- ↑ (3 October 1866). Death of Miss Maria Cummins, The Author, The New York Times (reporting based on Boston Transcript story)
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- Dorchester Atheneum : Maria Susanna Cummins Template:Webarchive - biography
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- The Lamplighter by Template:Trim Maria Susanna Cummins at the Internet Archive
- The Lamplighter by Rebecca Saulsbury at the Literary Encyclopedia
- "The Lamplighter" audio book at "Librivox"
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- 1827 births
- 1866 deaths
- 19th-century American novelists
- Writers from Salem, Massachusetts
- Novelists from Boston
- American women novelists
- 19th-century American women writers
- People from Dorchester, Boston
- Abbot Academy alumni