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Minna Canth (Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnson) was born on 19 March, 1844 in Tampere, Finland, is a Finnish writer and social activist. Discover Minna Canth's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 53 years old?

Popular As Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnson
Occupation writer, playwright
Age 53 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 19 March 1844
Birthday 19 March
Birthplace Tampere, Finland
Date of death 1897
Died Place Kuopio, Finland
Nationality Finland

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Minna Canth Height, Weight & Measurements

At 53 years old, Minna Canth height is 4' 11" (1.5 m) .

Physical Status
Height 4' 11" (1.5 m)
Weight Not Available
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Who Is Minna Canth's Husband?

Her husband is Johan Ferdinand Canth (husband)

Family
Parents Gustaf Vilhelm Johnson (father) Lovisa Ulrika Archelin (mother)
Husband Johan Ferdinand Canth (husband)
Sibling Not Available
Children Anni Canth (daughter) Elli Canth (daughter) Hanna Canth (daughter) Maiju Canth (daughter) Jussi Canth (son) Pekka Canth (son) Lyyli Canth (daughter)

Minna Canth Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Minna Canth worth at the age of 53 years old? Minna Canth’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. She is from Finland. We have estimated Minna Canth's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
Salary in 2023 Under Review
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Source of Income Writer

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1816

Canth was born in Tampere to Gustaf Vilhelm Johnsson (1816–1877) and his wife Ulrika (1811–1893).

Her father worked at James Finlayson's textile factory initially as a worker and later as a foreman.

Gustaf and Ulrika had four children, Minna included, of whom the eldest, Adolf, died in infancy.

1844

Minna Canth (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.

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.

Minna Canth was the first major Finnish-language playwright and prose writer after Aleksis Kivi, the national author of Finland, and the first Finnish-language newspaper woman.

1850

Minna's surviving siblings were Gustaf (1850–1894) and Augusta (1852–1877).

1853

In 1853 his father was given charge of Finlayson's textile shop in Kuopio and the entire family relocated there.

Canth received an exceptionally thorough education for a working-class woman of her time.

Even before moving to Kuopio she had attended school at Finlayson's factory which was intended for the workers' children.

In Kuopio she continued to go to various girls' schools and as a testament to her father's success as a shopkeeper, she was even admitted into a school intended for upper class children.

1863

In 1863 she began her studies at the recently founded Jyväskylä Teacher Seminary, which was the first school in Finland to offer higher education for women.

1865

In 1865 she married her natural sciences teacher, Johan Ferdinand Canth (1835–1879), and had to drop out of the Seminary.

1866

Between 1866 and 1880 she gave birth to seven children: Anni (1866–1911), Elli (1868–1944), Hanna (1870–1889), Maiju (1872–1943), Jussi (1874–1929), Pekka (1876–1959) and Lyyli (1880–1969); her husband Johan died in 1879 shortly before the birth of the family's seventh child.

She began her writing career at the newspaper Keski-Suomi, where her husband worked as an editor.

She wrote about women's issues and advocated temperance.

1876

In 1876 the Canths were forced to leave the paper because Minna's writings had roused some bad blood; they were, however, both employed by the competing Päijänne the following year.

1878

Minna published her first works of fiction on the pages of Päijänne: various short stories, which were compiled in her first book, Novelleja ja kertomuksia, in 1878.

1885

In 1885 a bishop had argued that God's order required that women were not emancipated.

The writer Gustaf af Geijerstam then argued that men could only aspire to one day have the purity of women because they were fundamentally different and this was the reason for prostitution and other immorality.

Canth objected strongly to this argument as it meant that men could defend their poor morals by reference to their implicit shortcomings, whereas any women involved in prostitution would lack the same defence.

Minna Canth published a total of ten plays, seven short stories, as well as newspaper articles and speeches.

As a central representative of realism of her time, she mainly looked at the ills of society in her works.

Canth's most important works are the plays Työmiehen vaimo (The Worker's Wife) from 1885 and Anna Liisa, penned in 1895.

In Työmiehen vaimo, the main character Johanna is married to Risto, an alcoholic who wastes all his wife's money.

Johanna cannot prevent him – her money is legally his, not hers.

The play's premiere caused scandal, but a few months later, parliament enacted a new law about separation of property.

Anna Liisa is a tragedy about a fifteen-year-old girl who gets pregnant without being married – she manages to hide her pregnancy, and when the child is born, she suffocates it in a fit of panic.

Her boyfriend Mikko's mother helps her – she buries the baby in the woods, but a few years later, when Anna Liisa wants to marry her fiancé Johannes, she is blackmailed by Mikko and his mother.

They threaten her to reveal her dark secret if she does not agree to marry Mikko, but Anna Liisa refuses.

In the end, she decides to confess what she has done.

She is taken to prison, but is much relieved after owning up and seems to have found peace.

1897

Canth died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 53 on May 12, 1897 at her home in Kuopio.

She was buried in a family grave in Kuopio Cemetery.

Canth stood out when there was public debate about women's rights.

2007

She was also the first woman to receive her own flag flying day in Finland, starting on 19 March 2007.

It is also the day of social equality in Finland.