Hanna

by Minna Canth

"Hanna" by Minna Canth is a novella published in 1886. This psychological coming-of-age story follows a fifteen-year-old girl's journey from puberty to adulthood in a bourgeois family. Shaken by her parents' troubled marriage and her father's drinking, Hanna loses her carefree childhood and withdraws from the world. As she navigates heartbreak, societal expectations, and her father's controlling demands, Hanna's own dreams are repeatedly pushed aside in a world that treats boys and girls very differently.