Kaunis Ambrosine: Romaani book cover
Romance · First English work 1902; Finnish edition 1927 · Finnish

Kaunis Ambrosine: Romaani

by Elinor Glyn

About this book

Ambrosine tells her own story of aristocratic expectations, reduced circumstances and the difficult choices surrounding marriage. Raised under her grandmother’s strict ideas of rank and propriety, she encounters a society in which security, appearances and personal feeling rarely point in the same direction.

This Finnish edition of Elinor Glyn’s adult society novel follows Ambrosine through disillusionment and a growing understanding of love, loyalty and her own wishes. The complete 1927 Otava text preserves both internal books and the narrator’s final resolution. Its original English title is The Reflections of Ambrosine; the translation date is presented as the edition date, not as a new original work.