Project Gutenberg 2025-05-27 Public domain in the USA. 77 Stiernstedt, Marika 1875 1954 Stjernstedt, Marika Fröken Liwin. Finnish Neiti Liwin : $b Romaani $aPorvoo :$bWSOY, $c1927. Tuula Temonen "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.) 20250128011547stjernsted 1927 FI Reading ease score: 41.4 (College-level). Difficult to read. fi Mothers and daughters -- Fiction Unmarried mothers -- Fiction Swedish fiction -- Translations into Finnish Foster children -- Fiction PT Text Category: Novels 539922 2025-07-30T06:59:21.407730 text/html 274551 2025-07-30T06:59:30.640663 application/epub+zip 283160 2025-07-30T06:59:24.690696 application/epub+zip 271009 2025-07-30T06:59:23.353678 application/epub+zip 493167 2025-07-30T06:59:35.327639 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 469473 2025-07-30T06:59:29.628645 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 490972 2025-07-30T06:59:20.959686 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 471292 2025-05-27T14:15:17 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13925 2025-07-30T06:59:35.459610 application/rdf+xml 13802 2025-07-30T06:59:23.872664 image/jpeg 3661 2025-07-30T06:59:23.607677 image/jpeg 270875 2025-07-30T06:59:21.451822 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 en.wikipedia sv.wikipedia