Neiti Liwin : Romaani by Marika Stiernstedt
"Neiti Liwin : Romaani" by Marika Stiernstedt is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Miss Elma Liwin, a capable yet solitary woman in Stockholm whose outwardly respectable charity work hides a painful secret and a raw vulnerability to social judgment. After a humiliating slight from the admired Alexandra Pasch, Elma’s conflicts with respectability, desire, and independence come into focus. The story delves into hidden emotional dramas and the
uneasy boundary between benevolence, hypocrisy, and longing. The opening of the novel presents life as a set of silent dramas before dropping into a charity board meeting where Elma demands an explanation from Mrs. Pasch for calling her a “spinster,” then abruptly resigns. On her walk home through Humlegården, spring stirs memories of a youthful affair with a bandleader, an unwanted pregnancy, his rejection, a secret birth aided by a midwife, and the immediate surrender of her newborn—events that hardened her pride. In the present she lives with the breezy physiotherapist Rick Brunjohann; Mrs. Pasch’s expensive flowers and bland apology only sharpen Elma’s self-scrutiny. The scene then shifts to Tilda, a lively schoolgirl who finds a pearl cross in the park and returns it to Mrs. Pasch, meeting her son Alexis and hinting at new threads tying these lives together. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Stiernstedt, Marika, 1875-1954 |
|---|---|
| Uniform Title | Fröken Liwin. Finnish |
| Title | Neiti Liwin : Romaani |
| Original Publication | Porvoo: WSOY, 1927. |
| Credits | Tuula Temonen |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 41.4 (College-level). Difficult to read. |
| Language | Finnish |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Mothers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Subject | Unmarried mothers -- Fiction |
| Subject | Swedish fiction -- Translations into Finnish |
| Subject | Foster children -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 76170 |
| Release Date | May 27, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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