Canth

In the beginning of the 1880's, Canth adopted ideas from such authors as Taine, Ibsen, Strindberg and Zola.

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Ulrika Wilhelmina (Minna) Canth, (1844-1897) was a famous, influential Finnish playwright and author of short stories.

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After the death of her husband in 1879, Canth moved with her seven children to Kuopio.

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Canth studied at Jyväskylä Teachers' Seminary, but left her studies and married in 1865 her teacher Johan Ferdinand Canth, nine years her senior.

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Social criticism was a relatively new phenomenon in Finnish literature, and Canth was more outspoken than contemporary male writers.

Minna Canth Matterhorn 2009

Canth studied at Jyväskylä Teachers' Seminary, but left her studies and married in 1865 her teacher Johan Ferdinand Canth, nine years her senior.

Minna Canth Matterhorn 2009

Although Canth championed for many ideas, she left the debate about language and nationality i.e. between Swedish- and Finnish-speakers to other writers, such as Juhani Aho, who shared her anticlerical and reformist views.

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In Papin perhe The Parson's family Canth studied ideological battle inside a middle-class family.

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Social criticism was a relatively new phenomenon in Finnish literature, and Canth was more outspoken than contemporary male writers.

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Canth portrayed her characters with understanding and realism.

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