Project Gutenberg 2025-04-16 Public domain in the USA. 124 Wägner, Elin 1882 1949 Wagner, Elin Wuolijoki, Hella 1886 1954 Wuolijoki, H. (Hella) Wuolijoki, Hella Maria Murrik Tervapää, Juhani Tervapaa, Juhani Murrik, Ella Norrtullsligan. Finnish Konttorityttöjen kohtaloita $aHelsinki :$bOsuuskunta työläisnainen, $c1913. Tuula Temonen "Konttorityttöjen kohtaloita" by Elin Wägner is a novel written in the early 20th century. The book centers on the lives of young, educated women working in offices in a rapidly modernizing, urban society. Through its narrative, the work explores issues of women's labor, social expectations, and the shifting structure of the bourgeois family as economic pressures push women into the workforce. Main characters include Elisabet and her circle of friends and colleagues, highlighting both their daily hardships and moments of camaraderie as they seek independence and meaning within the constraints of their working lives. The opening of the novel, including the translator's foreword, introduces the economic and societal changes that force middle-class women into office work, contrasting the relatively privileged daughters who supplement their families with "pin money" with those who must fully support themselves. The story begins in Stockholm with Elisabet reflecting on her unexpected path to becoming an office worker and her apprehension toward her new job. We are quickly immersed in her new communal living arrangement with other women, their routines, struggles with low pay, and conversations about relationships, work, and dreams of a better future. The narrative alternates between wry humor and sober realism, offering vivid portraits of daily life, ambitions, disappointments, and the sense of solidarity among the women. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20241119234842wgner 1913 FI Reading ease score: 49.8 (College-level). Difficult to read. fi Feminist fiction Stockholm (Sweden) -- Fiction Swedish fiction -- Translations into Finnish Women clerks -- Fiction PT Text Category: Novels 238555 2025-07-30T05:41:55.374304 text/html 155072 2025-07-30T05:42:02.047244 application/epub+zip 157792 2025-07-30T05:41:58.264269 application/epub+zip 151418 2025-07-30T05:41:57.073267 application/epub+zip 312590 2025-07-30T05:42:04.678235 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 299306 2025-07-30T05:42:01.177277 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 210910 2025-07-30T05:41:55.036287 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 191128 2025-04-16T13:38:49 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17026 2025-07-30T05:42:04.824225 application/rdf+xml 13554 2025-07-30T05:41:57.586254 image/jpeg 3829 2025-07-30T05:41:57.328255 image/jpeg 154238 2025-07-30T05:41:55.395278 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog sv.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia fi.wikipedia