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6. Susannah Ruskin

  • 'Nora's dramatic exit is something many parents do five days a week'
  • 'There is something timeless about it ... The things Ibsen writes means it ceases to be about a particular milieu'
  • 'The new woman sprang fully armed from Ibsen's brain'
  • 'An exclusively masculine society, with rules made by men and prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine viewpoint'

7. Hedwig Niemann-Raabe

  • 'The new woman sprang fully armed from Ibsen's brain'
  • 'I would never leave [my children]
  • 'There are thousands of such doll-homes'
  • 'a barbaric outrage'

8. Social Demokraten

  • 'There are thousands of such doll-homes'
  • 'The new woman sprang fully armed from Ibsen's brain'
  • 'Nora's dramatic exit is something which many parents do five days a week'
  • 'an exclusively masculine society, with rules made by men and prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine viewpoint'

9. M. V. Brun

  • 'It starts with 'macaroon lies' which grows into 'white lies''
  • 'The new woman sprang fully armed from Ibsen's brain'
  • 'There are thousands of such doll-homes'
  • 'Frivolous, deceitful or unwomanly, she neither qualifies as a heroine nor as a spokeswoman for feminism'