Jenny

SIGRID UNDSET is probably the most widely read of the Norwegian novelists—certainly the best known of her sex. Jenny (published in 1911) is one of her finest books and the first to appear in English. Her work proved of especial interest to the American woman of the time, for it is, first of all, the modern woman, her nature and her fate, that she endeavors to describe. The action of Jenny, a love story of very distinctive and original quality, opens in Rome, where the life of a group of Scandinavian art students is excellently described; passes on to Norway, and returns to Rome for the final and heart-rending denouement.