Letters 214, 216, 217, 219. In the Ibsen volume of Die Literatur . Dr. Julius Elias makes the curious assertion that the character of Thea Elvsted was in part borrowed from this "Gossensasser Hildetypus." It is hard to see how even Gibes' ingenuity could distil from the same flower two such different essences as Thea and Hilda. See article by Herman Bang in Neue deutsche Rundschau, December 1906, p. 1495. Dr. Brahm says that after the first performance of Hedda Gabler in Berlin Ibsen confided to him that the character had been suggested by a German lady whom he met in Munich, and who did not shoot, but poisoned herself. Nothing more seems to be known of this lady. See, too, an article by Julius Elias in the same magazine, p. 1460. Transcriber's Note: The inclusion or omission of commas between repeated words in this etext is reproduced faithfully from both the 1914 and 1926 editions of Hedda Gabler, copyright 1907 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Modern editions of the same translation use the commas consistently throughout.--D.L.

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