Canth was born 1844. Consequently 177 years go today, and is considered one of the most influential playwrights and realist prosaists in the history of the Finnish language.
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.
We know wery well works The Worker's Wife and The Pastor's Family. Those are her best known plays, but the play Anna Liisa is the most adapted to the films and operas.
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. She was the greatest Finnish suffragist.
She gave Finland's first ever theosophical presentation in Kuopio in 1891 - according to historian Erik Gullman. Minna Canth was the first major Finnish-language playwright and prose writer after Aleksis Kivi, the national author of Finland, and also the first Finnish-language newspaper woman.
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It comes as no surprise as Finland once again takes the top spot as the happiest country in the world according to survey data taken from the Gallup World Poll.
It has always ranked very high on the measures of mutual trust that have helped to protect lives and livelihoods during the (Covid-19) pandemic. The rankings overall remained very similar to last year.
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