Fröken Liwin by Marika Stiernstedt

"Fröken Liwin" by Marika Stiernstedt is a novel published in 1925. When a young upper-middle-class woman becomes pregnant out of wedlock, she flees to Stockholm to hide her shame. She gives up her child, expecting relief, but instead finds herself haunted by guilt and longing. Fifteen years later, she reclaims her daughter, only to discover that legal motherhood cannot undo years of absence. The novel examines a society that punishes women for circumstances beyond their control. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Stiernstedt, Marika, 1875-1954
Title Fröken Liwin
Original Publication Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1925.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%B6ken_Liwin
Credits Jens Sadowski, Alpo Tiilikka, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Reading Level Reading ease score: 72.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language Swedish
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Subject Unmarried mothers -- Fiction
Subject Foster children -- Fiction
Subject Swedish fiction -- 20th century
Category Text
eBook-No. 74639
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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