This is an extract from an Ibsen timeline I have made to assist students working on A Doll’s House. I’d oove to see more ideas for entries…
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| 1846 | |||
| 1847 | Writing under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, Emily Brontë publishes Wuthering Heights in 1847, a year before her death. Charlotte Bronte publishes Jane Eyre under the pseudonym Currer Bell | ||
| 1848 | fathered a son with a servant girl; had little contact with the boy, as he soon moved to Kristiania (Oslo) | Karl Marx: Communist Maifesto | |
| 1849 | |||
| 1850 | published first play, Catiline; not performed. | ||
| 1851 | The police acts against the thranitter agency Arbeider-Foreningens Blad , seizes manuscripts and arrests Thrane and editor Abildgaard . Ibsen has written for the magazine and also taught at a Sunday school for workers, but manuscripts by him are not found, and Ibsen avoids police and judiciary. Moved to Bergen to work as playwright-in-residence at the Norwegian Theater | ||
| 1852 | |||
| 1853 | Holman Hunt paints ‘the awakening conscience’. |
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