Ruma kreivitär
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| Author | Kaari Utrio |
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| Language | Finnish |
| Subject | Helsinki in the 19th century, love |
| Genre | Historical fiction |
| Publisher | Tammi |
Publication date | 2002 |
| Publication place | Finland |
| Media type | Print (hardback, pocket book), audiobook[1] |
| Pages | 362 pp |
| ISBN | 951-31-2537-8 |
| OCLC | 52668363 |
Ruma kreivitär (Finnish: The Ugly Countess) is a 2002 historical novel by Finnish author Kaari Utrio telling a story of poor aristocrats and richening middle-class in the 1830s Finland.[2][3]
Characters
[edit]- Conrad Gyllenfalk, the last count of Bössa, an impoverished Earl
- Julia Gyllenfalk, Conrad's eldest daughter, "The Ugly Countess"
- Dorotea Gyllenfalk, Conrad's youngest daughter, a beauty
- Anton Wendel, a tobacco manufacturer
- Hanna Wendel, Anton's aunt
- Filip Adelheim, a baron and official in the government
- Eleonora, his wife the baroness
- Augusta Adelheim, a beautiful, rich and noble lady in her twenties
- Otto Adelheim, a young baron
- Anders Granlund, a saddler master and prosperous burgher
- Stina Granlund, Anders's wife
- Carolina Lohm, a rich heiress from Stina's first marriage
- Christina Tybelia, a dowager, wealthy, and relative to Julia's and Dorothea's late mother
- Vladimir Tybelius, a yet more distant relation, Tybelia's step-grandson
- The Honourable Thomas Stanley, a younger son of the Earl of Highminster from London
- Karl Kynberg, a foreman in Wendel's tobacco factory
- Orlando Vargas, a cigar master from North America (probably with Cuban roots)
- Cecily Underhill Vargas, his wife, a dressmaker, from New England
- Clas Johan von Numers, an elderly (retired) Captain
- Wenzel Lorenz, an elderly (retired) Lieutenant of the Finnish Navy ekipaasi (equipage)
References
[edit]- ^ Ruma kreivitär. National Library of Finland. 2002. ISBN 9789513125370. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ Valkonen, Kaija (22 September 2002). "Kolme kurkistusta naisen ja Suomen eiliseen Kaari Utrio luo varmaa ajankuvaa, Elisabet Aho tarjoaa leppeitä tuoksujaTuula Rotko uskaltaa pois historiallisen viihteen keskiöstä". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^ "Ruma kreivitär". Kirjasampo (in Finnish). Helsinki City Library. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
External links
[edit]- "Ruma kreivitär" (in Finnish). Tammi.
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