Maria Silfvan (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Maria Elisabeth Silfvan, as married Lempke and then Westerlund, in Swedish called Maria Sylvan, (25 March 1802 in Turku - 10 September 1865 in Oulu), was a Finnish actor, among the first professional native actors in Finland. Maria Silfvan was born in Turku and was to become one of the most known native actors in Finland in the first half of the 19th century, and could be regarded as Finland's first dramatic prima donna. In Finland, there was no real theatres and no native actors in the beginning of the 19th century; theatre was played by travelling Swedish theatre troupes touring the country.