New Woman "Aurora Leigh" (1856), which explored a woman's plight between conventional marriage and the radical possibility that a woman could become an independent artist. In drama, the late nineteenth century saw such "New Woman" plays as Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" (1879) and "Hedda Gabler" (1890), Henry Arthur Jones's play "The Case of Rebellious Susan" (1894) and George Bernard Shaw's controversial "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893) and "Candida" (1898). According to a joke by Max Beerbohm (1872–1956), "The New Woman sprang fully armed from Ibsen's brain" (an allusion to the birth of Athena). Bram Stoker's Dracula makes prominent mention of the New
Hedda Vernon Piel. She also worked in other films directed by Piel and collaborated with Max Obal until 1914. Some of her early films are "The Struggle for the Heritage" (1912), "The Brown Beast" (1914), and "The Iron Cross" (1914). In 1914 she founded her own production company, Hedda Vernon Films, in Berlin and produced her own films for the Hedda Vernon series, including the self-directed "The Yellow Grimace" (1914) and "Hedda Vernon's Stage Sketch" (1916). She also acted in several Eiko film productions until the end of World War I, mainly under the direction of her husband Hubert Moest, who founded