in Richard III Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House Luisa Miller in Salvadore Cammarano's Luisa Miller Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart and Princess Eboli Marion Delorme in Victor Hugo's Marion Delorme Victor Hugo's Tisbé Juliusz Słowacki's Maria Stuart and Mazeppa Modrzejewska was also the Polish interpreter of the more prominent plays by Ernest Legouvé, Alexandre Dumas, père and fils, Émile Augier, Alfred de Musset, Octave Feuillet and Victorien Sardou. In literature Susan Sontag's award-winning 1999 novel In America, though fiction, is based on Modjeska's life. The book precipitated a controversy when Sontag was accused of having plagiarized other works about Modjeska. Modjeska was a character in the novella My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather. Scholars Joanna and Catharina Polatynska have posited that Modjeska might have been Arthur Conan Doyle's model for the character Irene Adler, the only woman that Sherlock Holmes came close to loving. In "A Scandal in Bohemia", Doyle mentions Adler having been prima donna of the fictional Imperial Opera of Warsaw in the same years when Modjeska was at the peak of her theatrical career in Warsaw, and the fictional character's personality recalls that of the actual actress. Death anniversary In 2009, in honor of the 100th anniversary of her death, the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków presented the exhibition "Helena Modjeska (1840–1909): For the Love of Art" (8 April – 20 September 2009). The Warsaw staging of the same exhibition ran from October 2009 through January 2010. The exhibition included items from the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California. Google Doodle To commemorate the 181st anniversary of her birth on 12 October 2021, a Google Doodle paid homage to Modjeska. See also Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theater in Kraków Legitimacy List of Poles Modjeska House Starring Madame Modjeska Notes References Further reading External links Archival collections Guide to the Ellen K. Lee Collection on Helena Modjeska and Orange County. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Guide to the Collection of Helena Modjeska Theater Memorabilia. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Guide to the Helena Modjeska Collection. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Madam Modjeska scrapbooks, 1877–1898, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Heroines of the Modern Stage p. 52 by Forrest Izard c. 1915 Other Helena Modrzejewska at culture.pl Modjeska, Helena at American