Note 5 — HEDDA GABLER. INTRODUCTION.

Dr. Brahm (Neue deutsche Rundschau, December 1906, p. 1422) 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.