The lamplighter
(Book)

"The Lamplighter tells the story of a passionate-tempered orphan girl, Gerty, who is mistreated by a cruel caretaker and subsequently adopted by a kindly old lamplighter, Trueman Flint. Through his love and the religious teachings and loving example of a well-to-do blind woman, Gerty learns to control her emotions and grows to virtuous womanhood. In the end, after silently sufferling many afflictions, she is rewarded by being married to her childhood friend and confidante and by being reunited with her father, long thought dead."

Allene Cooper.