Eva Trout (novel) why Iseult took the gun in exchange for the typewriter she left to Eric, Iseult states that it might be a matter of a "Hedda Gabler complex." In this play written by Henrik Ibsen, Hedda hands in a gun to another character to assist him in committing suicide. Eva Trout (novel) Eva Trout is Elizabeth Bowen's final novel and was shortlisted for the 1970 Booker Prize. First published in 1968, it is about a young woman—the —who, abandoned by her mother just after her birth, raised by nurses and nannies and educated by governesses all hired by her millionaire father,
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