Author

Marika Stiernstedt

1875-1954

Marika Stiernstedt (1875-1954) is a public-domain author available on Rivro. Read free books, explore subjects, and discover related classics.

Subjects

Foster children -- Fiction Mothers and daughters -- Fiction Unmarried mothers -- Fiction Swedish fiction -- 20th century Swedish fiction -- Translations into Finnish

Books by Marika Stiernstedt

Fröken Liwin

"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.

Neiti Liwin : $b Romaani

"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.