Elvira Willman | |
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 Elvira Willman as a graduate in 1894 | |
| Born | 10 August 1875 |
| Died | 17 April 1925 (aged 49) |
| Nationality | Finnish |
| Occupation(s) | playwright, journalist, revolutionary |
| Years active | 1895–1918 |
Agnes Elvira Maria Willman (10 August 1875 – 17 April 1925) was a Finnish playwright, journalist and a revolutionary socialist who was one of the most prominent women of the early Finnish labour movement. Willman is also considered as the first female working-class writer in Finland, despite coming from a bourgeois background. After the 1918 Finnish Civil War, Willman and her husband, Voitto Eloranta fled to the Soviet Russia. They were both later accused of being involved with the Kuusinen Club Incident, a murder of eight Finnish communists. Eloranta was executed in 1922 and Willman in 1925.