![]() ![]() Her naturalist play Kovan onnen lapsia (1888, ‘Children of Misfortune’) is a depiction of total poverty of the working-class people and the effects it had on them. ![]() In her own time she was a controversial figure due to her social activity and her radical social opinions. Her later plays and short stories from the phase of the so called “realism of indignation” addressed women’s issues and labour rights. Minna Canth’s writing career began with the play Murtovarkaus (1883, ‘Burglary’). She is also one of the first authors writing in Finnish, while in the literature of Finland the language before her days was mainly Swedish – for example another Finnish writer presented here, Fredrika Runeberg, ![]() Image:Canth.jpg? Minna Canth (née Johnson) is a notable Finnish realist and naturalist writer of the 1880s and 1890s. ![]()
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