02441cam a22003493u 4500 76170 UtSlPG 20260610134749.0 m cr n 260607r20251927utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG fi iso639-1 PT Stiernstedt, Marika, 1875-1954 Fröken Liwin. Finnish Neiti Liwin Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-05-27 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.) Originally published: Porvoo: WSOY, 1927 Mothers and daughters -- Fiction Unmarried mothers -- Fiction Swedish fiction -- Translations into Finnish Foster children -- Fiction https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76170 116895 116895