Note 121 — Chapter XI · FAMILY INFLUENCES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LOVE LIFE

It is such a character for instance that Ibsen appears to have met in the person of Emilie Bardach of Vienna, who served as principal model for Hilda Wangel in The Master Builder and who is referred to in the following description given to his friend Elias (Neue Deutsche Rundschau 1906, p. 1462, quoted by William Archer in his Introductions to Ibsen's plays, Vol. X, p. XXIV) "He related how he had met in the Tyrol a Viennese girl of very remarkable character. She at once made him her confidant. The gist of her confessions was that she did not care a bit about one day marrying a well brought-up young man—most likely she would never marry. What tempted and charmed and delighted her was to lure other women's husbands away from them. She was a little daemonic worker: she often appeared to him like a little bird of prey, that would fain have made him too, her booty."