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Maria S. Cummins (1827–1866)

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Informazioni generali

Nome legale
Cummins, Maria Susanna
Data di nascita
1827-04-09
Data di morte
1866-10-01
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di nascita
Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Luogo di residenza
Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA
Istruzione
Mrs. Charles Sedgwick's Young Ladies' School in Lenox, Massachusetts
Attività lavorative
novelist
essayist
Relazioni
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria (salon hostess)
Breve biografia
Maria Susanna Cummins was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the eldest of four children in an affluent family, and grew up in Dorchester. Her father was a judge who also had children from a previous marriage. Maria's father encouraged her to become a writer from an early age. She went as a boarder to the fashionable Mrs. Charles Sedgwick's Young Ladies School in Lenox, Massachusetts.
There she met Mrs. Sedgwick's sister-in-law, author Catharine Maria Sedgwick, who presided over a literary salon and must have had some influence on the young Maria. In 1854, at age 26, Maria published her first novel, The Lamplighter, a sentimental tale of a Boston orphan that became an immediate bestseller and made its author famous. Her subsequent three books Mabel Vaughn (1857), El Fureidis (1860), and Haunted Hearts (1864) achieved varying degress of success. She traveled in England, Scotland, and the Alpine region and published two long essays about her experiences in The Atlantic Monthly in 1864 and 1865. She returned from her second European trip in failing health and died at the age of 39.

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A great message is lost in a boring story.
 
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Jon_Speed | 2 altre recensioni | May 9, 2022 |
Not bad, though slow at parts. I have the Lamplighter Publishing copy which I understand has been edited somewhat. The overall story is great but the characters lack some of the depth you'd expect with a book this size; not sure how else to describe it. It seems the author wants you to connect to the characters but because they are lacking something I found it hard to do so. In the end I'm glad to have read it but it won't likely be brought out again.
 
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NeverEnoughTime | 2 altre recensioni | Dec 23, 2016 |
Given to my grandfather in 1900 for bringing five scholars into Sunday School.
 
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OnwardToOurPast | 2 altre recensioni | May 14, 2011 |

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5
Utenti
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Popolarità
#54,622
Voto
½ 3.3
Recensioni
3
ISBN
34
Lingue
2

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