The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor

Enjoyable historical fiction about a young woman who helped her father and brother keep an island lighthouse operational in the 1830s. One stormy night, she and her father go out in a small boat to try to rescue survivors of a sinking ship, and as a result, she becomes famous much to her dismay. This interesting story also introduces a fictional relative of one of the survivors who more than 100 years later ends up at a lighthouse in Newport, Rhode Island. Their stories in separate chapters offer a satisfying look at the largely unrecognized existence of women lighthouse keepers.