The Girl from the Marsh Croft (novella)

1908 novella by Selma Lagerlöf

The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Title page for The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1916 printing)
Author	Selma Lagerlöf
Original title	Tösen från Stormyrtorpet
Translator	Velma Swanston Howard
Language	Swedish
Publisher	Bonniers
Publication date	1908
Publication place	Sweden
Published in English	1910
Pages	86

The Girl from the Marsh Croft (Swedish: Tösen från Stormyrtorpet) is a 1908 novella by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf. The story has been adapted numerous times for film.

Publication

The story was originally featured in the collection En saga om en saga och andra sagor (English: A tale about a tale and other tales), published through Bonniers in 1908. The whole collection was published in English as The Girl from the Marsh Croft in 1910, translated by Velma Swanston Howard.^[1] The story was republished in Sweden in 1917 in its own volume.

Adaptations

Seven film adaptations exist. The first was a 1917 adaptation by Victor Sjöström, known as The Lass from the Stormy Croft, which was a vital early part of what is known as the Golden Age of Swedish Silent Cinema. The other versions are a German and a Turkish in 1935, a Finnish in 1940, another Swedish in 1947, a Danish in 1952 and another German in 1958.^[2]

References

^ "Selma Lagerlöf - Bibliography". nobelprize.org. Nobel Media. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
^ "Tösen från Stormyrtorpet (1917): Kommentar". Swedish Film Database (in Swedish). Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved 2012-03-27.