Maila Talvio

Maila Talvio née Winter, married Mikkola (October 17, 1871 – January 6, 1951), was a Finnish writer.

Talvio was a leading Finnish writer on the temperance question and several of her works were translated into Swedish and other languages.

[1] She was born in Hartola, the daughter of Adolf Magnus Winter and Julia Malvina Bonsdorf, who had a family of 9 children.

Her husband was J. J. Mikkola, a renowned scholar of Slavic linguistics, whom she married in 1893.

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