Minna Canth

Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnson, known as Minna Canth, was born in Tampere on 19 March 1844, the daughter of a worker who became a foreman at the Finlayson spinning mill, and who in 1853 took over the factory's yarn shop in Kuopio. She entered the teacher-training seminary in Jyväskylä in 1863 and left it in 1865 to marry one of her teachers, whom she helped to keep the journal. Widowed in 1879, pregnant with her seventh child, she took over the family shop in Kuopio; her salon there became a meeting place for letters and ideas. She died in Kuopio on 12 May 1897; Finland has flown the flag on her birthday since 2007.

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• TheatreThe Parson's FamilyPapin perheMinna Canth · 1891LiteraturePublic domain