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 Zinner 1934. In 1935 she emigrated to Moscow. After the Second World War she settled in East Berlin. In 1980, Zinner was awarded the Order of Karl Marx. She also wrote under the pseudonym Elisabeth Frank. Hedda Zinner Hedda Zinner, or Hedda Erpenbeck-Zinner (20 May 1905 – 7 January 1994), was a German political writer, actress, comedian, journalist and radio director. Hedda Zinner was born in Lemberg on May 20, 1905. She attended the Acting Academy there from 1923 to 1925. Zinner began working as an actress but her interest in the workers' movement led her to move to Berlin and,