''Jenny'' is a novel by the Norwegian writer

Sigrid Undset Sigrid Undset () (20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Norwegian-Danish novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old. In 1924, ...

, published in 1911, and regarded as Undset's literary breakthrough. The novel is set in

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and later in Norway. The protagonist "Jenny Winge" tries to make a career as a painter.

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* * 1911 novels Novels by Sigrid Undset Novels set in Norway Novels set in Rome 20th-century Norwegian novels {{1910s-novel-stub