A Doll's House Context and Impact

Published

1879

Who is the real Nora

Laura Peterson

Ibsen's father

Knud Ibsen bankrupt 1836

Scientific development

Charles Darwin on inheritance 1859

Victorian genre

Melodrama

Monarchy?

Danish monarchy

Victorian tropes for women

Temptress or wife

Ibsen on the law

“woman is judged by masculine law”

Ibsen's aim

Humanism - to “wake” people

Ibsen education

Trained as physician

Law on women's righrs

1888 Norway woman right to manage own earnings

Angel in the House

1854 Coventry Patmore

Classes

Middle class culture of competition

Feminism in China

Noraism

Alternative ending

German - Ibsen ‘barbaric’

What was blamed on Ibsen

The New Woman

Sequel

Nora by Itzerott- nervous disease