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Liliecrona's Home was published in Sweden 1911 and translated into English by Anna Barwell
and published in London 1913. The story is set in the same surroundings in the district of
Varmland, which Lagerlof knew so well, and used in many of her books. At the bottom of the
dried out Svartsjo lake (Black Lake) there lies the Lovdala Parsonage with its stables and
outhouses. There resides the goodhearted, widowed, Pastor Lyselius and his beautiful
daughter. Here one day, arrives his new wife, who turns out to be a wicked stepmother. She
tempts with her cooking and other allurements, but soon shows her real self. She torments
her servants and especially the parson's daughter, mamsell Maia Lisa. We follow mamsell
Maia Lisa through torments and sufferings where she gets ever new and harder burdens to
carry on her weak shoulders. But by her side in all weathers stands the cleareyed Little Maid,
never afraid to say what she thinks or to defend justice. It is hard times when the stepmother
is allowed to rule at Lovdala. Even the Parson abandons his nice personality and becomes a
marionette who turns against those who he most loves. But changes will come in the end.

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Cover image: Meditation (1902) by Nicolae Vermont (1866- 1932).
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