New Woman

Mrs. Elvsted is an of a “new woman”. Even though at first she gave in to the pressures of society and lived the life an “old woman”. When she was a young woman she got married and had two children. When she realized that she was not satisfied with her current life she divorced her husband and left their estate and moves to the city. In this time period it was very uncommon for a woman to leave her husband, especially if they had children. She did not believe that just because she was a woman that it was her duty to play the role of caretaker. In Lovborg’s manuscript a lot of Mrs. Elvsted thoughts are present in the manuscript that Lovborg wrote. Women did not usually write or help by inputting their thoughts into the work in which Lovborg was doing.