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Jotuni, Maria (1880 - 1943)

Short name Jotuni, Maria
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First name Maria Gustaava
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Alternative name Maria Haggrén — Maria Jotuni -Tarkiainen — Nix
Date of birth 1880
Date of death 1943
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Place of birth Kuopio
Place of death Helsinki
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Art VII: Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin in The Critical Review (1818)
is also a reception: comments on work Memoirs of the court of Queen Elizabeth
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Suhteita (Relations/Relationships) (1905) 1 0
Rakkautta (1907) 1 0

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Research in Finnish by e.g. Irmeli Niemi, Lea Rojola, Riikka Rossi In English: A History of Finland's Literature, ed. by George C. Schoolfield (1998) One of her plays (Kultainen vasikka, 1918) translated into English as "The Golden Calf" and included in a selection of plays "Portraits of Courage. Plays by Finnish Women", ed. by S.E. Wilmer (1997)

Jotuni studied at the university (history and literature) and contributed to student magazines. At the university, Jotuni met Viljo Tarkiainen (1879-1951), whom she later (1911) married. Tarkiainen was lecturing there and, later, became a Professor of Literature and an influential literary critic. There are various disputes about the importance of Tarkiainen's influential position in view of Jotuin's success as a writer (though her reception was by no means merely positive).

Considered a follower of Minna Canth in terms of using the heritage of realist-naturalist prose and drama in depictions of women and their lives; in her "laconic" short stories, she has been considered a foremother of later female short story writers, e.g. the contemporary writer Rosa Liksom