Date of birth and death?
1828-1906
What year did he move to Grimstead for study and work?
1843 (15 Years old)
What year did Ibsen father a child out of wedlock?
1846
What year did Ibsen get his first job and where?
Oslo Theatre, 1850.
What was Ibsen’s experience at Oslo theatre?
Presured to adhere to popular styles of the time (French romanticism, Norwegian Heroic nationalism)
What year did he marry Suzannah Thoresen?
1858
What did Suzannah say about his ‘steel’?
“Ibsen had no steel in his character- but I gave it to him.”
When was A Doll’s House written?
1879, written during the years that they travelled europe.
When did they return to Norway, Oslo?
1891
What were the rumours upon his return to Oslo?
That he had affairs with younger women. These were never physical, but they were intense frienships (emotional infidelity?)
Ibsen suffered strokes near the end of his life (left him bedridden at the time of his death), could be compared to Dr. Rank and Nora.
He adored his wife, his last words praised Suzannah.
