Vendla Randelin was a daugter of a priest. She studied for some time in Turku in a pension. She married the mayor of Uusikaupunki but widowed already 35 years old. Luckily she inherited the mansion of her uncle. Her publisher probably proposed for her that she should write a book because Swedish female writers were succcessful and much red in Finland. She wrote only one novel. Jwapr14