Karl Marx's Youngest Daughter and "A Doll's House"

Abstract

happens to Nora after she leaves at the end of the play. One can imagine how many asked the same question near the end of the nineteenth century, when A Doll's first produced in 1879, was fresh and when theatergoers and readers were accustomed to dramatic closures that raised no questions of conduct or morality to ponder at the end of the play. In England Walter Besant published a prose sequel, Doll's House and After, in English Illustrated Magazine, January 1890. Bernard Shaw wrote a sequel to this sequel, Still After The Doll's House, in Time, February 1890. In the second edition of The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1913) and in later editions Shaw has recorded, Another sequel was written by Eleanor, the youngest daughter of Karl Marx. I forget where [it] appeared.'