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Minna Canth
Photograph of Minna Canth by Victor Barsokevitsch
Born
Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnson
19 March 1844
Tampere, Finland
Died
12 May 1897(1897-05-12) (aged 53)
Kuopio, Finland
Occupation(s)
writer, playwright
Notable work
The Pastor's Family The Worker's Wife Anna Liisa
Spouse
Johan Ferdinand Canth (husband)
Children
Anni Canth (daughter) Elli Canth (daughter) Hanna Canth (daughter) Maiju Canth (daughter) Jussi Canth (son) Pekka Canth (son) Lyyli Canth (daughter)
Parent(s)
Gustaf Vilhelm Johnson (father) Lovisa Ulrika Archelin (mother)
Minna Canth (Finnish pronunciation:[minːɑkɑnt]; born Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnson; 19 March 1844 – 12 May 1897)[1][2] was a Finnish writer and social activist. Canth began to write while managing her family draper's shop and living as a widow raising seven children. Her work addresses issues of women's rights, particularly in the context of a prevailing culture she considered antithetical to permitting expression and realization of women's aspirations. The Worker's Wife and The Pastor's Family are her best known plays, but the play Anna Liisa is the most adapted to the films and operas. In her time, she became a controversial figure, due to the asynchrony between her ideas and those of her time, and in part due to her strong advocacy for her point of view.
Minna Canth was the first major Finnish-language playwright and prose writer after Aleksis Kivi, the national author of Finland, and the first Finnish-language newspaper woman.[3][4] She was also the first woman to receive her own flag flying day in Finland, starting on 19 March 2007. It is also the day of social equality in Finland.
^Minna Canth at the Encyclopædia Britannica
^Cite error: The named reference Klassikkogalleria was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Vuorikari, Outi. "Minnan elämäkerta lyhyesti". Minnan Salonki (in Finnish). Kuopion kaupunginkirjasto – Pohjois-Savon maakuntakirjasto. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
^Tellervo Krogerus: Canth, Minna (1844–1897), The National Biography of Finland, vol 2, pp. 103–106. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2003. ISBN 951-746-443-6. (in Finnish)
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Anna-Liisa is a play in three acts written by MinnaCanth, which debuted in 1895 in Finnish. It was premiered at the Finnish Theatre and has since been...
the national writer of Finland, Aleksis Kivi (The Seven Brothers), and MinnaCanth, Eino Leino, and Juhani Aho. Many writers of the national awakening wrote...
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particularly oriented to those areas. Juhani Aho Pertti Ahokas Martti Ahtisaari MinnaCanth Pekka Halonen Janne Happonen Matti Hautamäki Marko Hietala Zachary Hietala...
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There is also a park in the Maljalahti district named after the author MinnaCanth. Construction of a new residential area has begun near Maljalahti, just...
concentrated on commissioned works, for example gravestones. His sculpture of MinnaCanth, unveiled in Kuopio in 1937, is one of Halonen’s best known public pieces...
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(Mongolia) Teacher's Day (Syria) March 19 Kashubian Unity Day (Poland) MinnaCanth's Birthday (Finland) March 20 Feast of the Supreme Ritual (Thelema) Great...
district along the Haapaniemenkatu and Minna Canthin katu streets. The shopping mall is named after local author MinnaCanth. Its neighbors include H-Talo and...
Runebergin päivä 19 March Birthday of novelist and playwright MinnaCanth and Day of Equality Minna Canthin päivä or Tasa-arvon päivä 9 April Day of the Finnish...
income as a seamstress for the shop of the author and social activist MinnaCanth. Haapalainen's parents wanted him to become a priest, but after graduating...
Mangold), English novelist and concert pianist (died 1912) March 19 – MinnaCanth, Finnish writer and social activist (died 1897) March 30 – Paul Verlaine...
it in 1912. Perhaps the most famous person buried in the cemetery is MinnaCanth, Finnish writer and social activist. According to the Finnish Heritage...
Eero Berg (1898–1969), long-distance runner and Olympic gold medalist MinnaCanth (1844–1897), author and social activist Rosa Clay (1875–1959), a Namibian-born...
author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 August 2018. Maijala, Minna. "MinnaCanth (1844–1897)". Klassikkogalleria. Kristiina Institute, University...
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