Marie Linder (Marie Musin-Pushkin) (b. St. Petersburg, Russia, 1840 – d. 1870, Helsinki, Finland) was a manor hostess and an author. She was an important figure in Helsinki’s social circles in the 1860s and part of an aristocratic family with connections to Finland and Russia. She participated in amateur theater performances, played the piano, sang and recited poems in her aunt Aurora Karamzin’s salon. She married Constantin Linder and bought the Kytäjä manor in 1861. In 1864 the Linders established the first elementary school in Kytäjä, which they funded entirely. Writing had long been Marie Linder’s hobby and in 1866 she wrote several short stories published in the magazine Vecko-biblioteket under the pseudonym Stella. Her only novel En qvinna af vår tid [A woman of our time] was published in 1867. Some critics mocked its ideological message but others, such as Finnish authors Zachris Topelius and Adelaide Ehrnrooth, endorsed her work.
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