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 Gabler produced by Shanghai's Hangzhou XiaoBaiHua Yue Opera House. An adaptation with a lesbian relationship was staged in Philadelphia in 2009 by Mauckingbird Theatre Company. A production at Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts featured a male actor, Sean Peter Drohan, in the title role. Philip Kan Gotanda 'loosely' adapted Hedda Gabler into his 2002 play, "The Wind Cries Mary". A prostitute in the feature film "" is named Hedda Gobbler. The 2009 album "Until the Earth Begins to Part" by Scottish folk indie-rock band Broken Records features a song, "If Eilert Løvborg Wrote A Song, It Would Sound Like