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Minna Canth

1844 - 1897

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Minna Canth (Finnish pronunciation: [minːɑ kɑnt]; 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Minna Canth is the 1,761st most popular writer (up from 2,140th in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from Finland (up from 91st in 2019) and the 11th most popular Finnish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Minna Canth ranks 1,761 out of 7,302. Before her are Mário de Andrade, Bob Woodward, Mór Jókai, Adalberon, Antonio Skármeta, and Nora Ephron. After her are Silvina Ocampo, Baba Tahir, Shūsaku Endō, Junji Ito, Dominique Venner, and Marie Under.

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Among people born in 1844, Minna Canth ranks 38. Before her are Karl Lueger, George W. De Long, Princess Maria Immacolata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Saitō Hajime, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, and Thomas Eakins. After her are Mihály Munkácsy, Victorine Meurent, Louis Riel, Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Vasily Polenov, and Garret Hobart. Among people deceased in 1897, Minna Canth ranks 24. Before her are Princess Sophie of the Netherlands, Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier, Andrés Bonifacio, Prince William of Baden, Giuseppina Strepponi, and Galileo Ferraris. After her are Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Léon Boëllmann, Stanislas de Guaita, Alexei Savrasov, and Henry George.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Minna Canth ranks 71 out of 751. Before her are Eino Leino (1878), Ville Ritola (1896), Eero Saarinen (1910), Leif Segerstam (1944), Väinö Linna (1920), and Tapio Wirkkala (1915). After her are Petteri Orpo (1969), Jaakko Hintikka (1929), Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt (1757), Matthias Castrén (1813), Kaija Saariaho (1952), and Ernst Linder (1868).

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Among WRITERS In Finland

Among writers born in Finland, Minna Canth ranks 11. Before her are Arto Paasilinna (1942), Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804), Aleksis Kivi (1834), Zachris Topelius (1818), Eino Leino (1878), and Väinö Linna (1920). After her are Juhani Aho (1861), Fredrika Bremer (1801), Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943), Bo Carpelan (1926), Pentti Linkola (1932), and Paavo Haavikko (1931).

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