[1] Created to provide girls with an education in preparing quality, home-cooked meals as well as in nutrition, hygiene, and Christianity, her schools became a chain of restaurants, shops, and banquet halls.

The family became so poor that at the age of nine, she was sold at a child auction to a person in her home parish of Arnäs who took her in for the lowest price.

Norbäck was the founder of the Annanite [sv] church in Arnäs and her free congregation often visited Lindmark.

Eventually, she was employed as a cook by wealthy farmers, priests and merchants and as a housekeeper for the photographer Adele Kindlund in Östersund, Sweden.

[3] In 1898, she used her savings to attend a course at Elsa Borg's Bible Women's Home in Vita Bergen, Stockholm.

One of the guests was the widower Axel Lindmark, a surveyor in the Swedish military's mapping division, who came to the restaurant with his children Oscar, Aimée and Robert.

The goal was to teach young, Christian girls how to prepare high-quality Swedish home cooking.

Lindmark's second idea was that food should be sold fresh daily in shops, making her the first to introduce take-out in Sweden, long before the concept existed.

The third basic idea was a restaurant for Christian families who wanted to eat undisturbed by drunken guests in smoky rooms.

The timing coincided with Norrköping's large art and industry exhibition in 1906, which created a demand for dining establishments.

The barn was the largest of its kind in Sweden and had 170 cows that provided Lindmark with dairy products; 28 greenhouses grew strawberries, tomatoes and grapes.

[3] In 1933, she became Torsten Kreuger's first tenant in the Citypalatset building at Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, demonstrating boldness and modern ideas.

After her husband's death in 1935, Lindmark remained active and, at the age of 80, ran Margaretaskolan until 1941, when she died of pneumonia.