Even before moving to Kuopio she had attended school at Finlayson's factory which was intended for the workers' children. It is also the day of social equality in Finland.Ĭanth received an exceptionally thorough education for a working-class woman of her time. She was also the first woman to receive her own flag flying day in Finland, starting on 19 March 2007. 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. 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. 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. 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. Canth began to write while managing her family draper's shop and living as a widow raising seven children. Current content from the pages of the magazine can be found on the WLT websiteand on Project Muse.Minna Canth ( born Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnson 19 March 1844 – ) was a Finnish writer and social activist.

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