With Bjornson she was throughout in friendly relationship. He had recognised her fine abilities before she even began to write, and she on her side was full Of admiration for his genius, strength, and goodness. The other world-famous writer of Scandinavia Ellen Key learned to know through his work at the age Of eighteen, when her mother presented to her Love's Comedy, Brand, and Peer Gynt this also was an in?uential event in her life. Among writers to whom she was later attracted were Elizabeth B. Browning, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and John Ruskin.