CHAPTER VII THE LAST YEARS IN STOCKHOLM AN episode in Ellen Key's life, which ought to have a place in her biography, is her speech at the Ibsen Festival, and the resulting storm, which found its outlet partly in a pro- test signed by two hundred and eighty-one Swedish women, printed by request in all the Stockholm papers, and partly in the conflicting opinions expressed by the various newspapers throughout the country. Two hundred and fifty persons attended the Ibsen banquet, and enthusiastically applauded Ellen Key's address to the guest of honour. Ellen Key had been out of town at the time of Ibsen's visit to Stockholm, but was appealed to by telegram, and begged to return to "voice the feelings of the Swedish women. " Having previotisly paid personal homage to Ibsen, in an address of greeting on his seventieth birth- day, and also in her lectures in Stockholm before the Federated Highschools' Society and 138