Marja Salmela

Born Maria Stenroth in 1875, she was a Finnish writer who published under the name Marja Salmela. She spent her childhood and youth in Laukaa, studied in Kuopio, and later moved to the Marjaniemi estate in Kaarina after her father's death.

She wrote fiction, including work for children and young people, and is remembered as part of the generation of Finnish authors writing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Finnish Wikipedia article about her notes family background, places she lived, and her literary career, though the readily available summary is brief.

She died in 1924. A portrait image appears on her Finnish Wikipedia page under her birth name, Maria Stenroth.