Minna Canth
(1844-1897)
Finnish writer
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Minna Canth (IPA [minna ka:nt], born Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnson, 19 March 1844 – 12 May 1897) 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. Her play The Pastor's Family is her best known. 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.
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19 March 1844 Tampere, Finland
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12 May 1897 (aged 53) Kuopio, Finland
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