Her stories also held peasant women in high esteem. Minna Canth dealt with social issues in her writings for newspapers, her novels and her plays. She criticized the system that taught girls useless things rather than the skills that they needed in life.
In her writings on women’s issues she emphasized the questions of morality and of girls’ education. After her husband died in 1880 she moved to Kuopio and started to run her father’s shop to support her seven children. Between 18 Minna Canth wrote short stories and articles on women’s and temperance issues for the newspapers “Keski-Suomi” and “Päijänne”. She resigned from the Seminary to marry Johan Fredrik Canth, a lecturerĪt the Seminary. She went to the Kuopio public girls’ school and started at the Jyväskylä Teacher Minna Canth (née Johnsson) was the daughter of a merchant. Minna Canth at the age of her confirmation.
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