biography
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Canth, Minna
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née Ulrika Vilhelmina Johnsson
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| female
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| lived:
| (1844–97)
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| biography:
| Playwright and feminist, born in Tampere, SW Finland. A powerful exponent of the Realist school, her best-known plays are Työmiehen Vaimo (1885, A Working-class Wife) and Kovan Onnen Lapsia (1888, Children of Misfortune). Later she turned to Tolstoyan psychological dramas about women, as in Anna Liisa (1895). |
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