In Oslo, Norway, his last place of residence was transformed into a museum. Where everything is just as he left it. It has been said that Ibsen used to “print fake banknotes for his wife as a joke at Christmas and on her birthday, which is exactly what Torvald does for Nora in A Doll's House” (Blake). The “museum guide” said that Ibsen's wife was the only person allowed to read a new work before it went to the publisher. He asked her, “Is it too much for him to leave at the end?” Apparently, he said, “Either Nora leaves or I do” (Blake). It seems that Mrs. Ibsen knows the place of women all too well then. But having said that it makes you wonder. Did you put your foot down with your husband? Did Mrs. Ibsen at one point threaten to leave her husband? Ibsen was afraid of losing his
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