In 1872, Laura Kieler (then unmarried) visited Henrik Ibsen and his wife. They had become acquaintances years earlier after the young woman wrote Brand’s Daughters, Kieler’s response to Ibsen’s 1866 play Brand. She showed promise as a young novelist, and the Ibsens encouraged her endeavors. A year later, Laura married Victor Kieler, and they soon started a family. This marriage and Laura’s actions became the inspiration for Nora Helmer and A Doll’s House. Like Nora, Laura secretly borrowed money to finance a trip to Italy in order to save her husband from tuberculosis. After Victor recovered
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