Bram Stoker, a biography of the author of Dracula, Barbara Belford
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Label
Bram Stoker, a biography of the author of Dracula, Barbara Belford
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-363) and index
resource.biographical
individual biography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Bram Stoker
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
34077042
Responsibility statement
Barbara Belford
Sub title
a biography of the author of Dracula
Summary
The first full-scale biography of the complex man known today as the author of Dracula, but who was famous in his own time as the innovative manager of London's Lyceum Theatre, home of the greatest English actors of the day, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. Barbara Belford tells the story of Stoker the hidden man. On the surface: the very model of Victorian modesty, reserve, and duty, the devoted husband and father. In actuality: a man whose emotional and working energies were in large part expended on the care and cultivation of the flamboyant, mesmerizing genius of the stage, Henry IrvingWe follow Stoker from his sickly childhood - entertained by his mother's twice-told tales of Irish hobgoblins and banshees - to his years as a Dublin undergraduate student and newspaperman, when he first wrote to his idol Walt Whitman, spilling out his innermost thoughts and beginning a lifelong correspondence that culminated in their meeting when Stoker traveled to America on tour with Irving and Ellen Terry. We see Stoker's childhood friendship with Oscar Wilde, and watch as the two young men compete for the hand of the beautiful Florence Balcombe, who became Stoker's wife. And we see Stoker in the literary and theatrical circles of Victorian London among such figures as Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, James Whistler, Lord Tennyson, and George Bernard Shaw
Table Of Contents
Dublin Dreams (1847-1878). The dreamer ; Trinity man ; Drama critic ; Henry Irving. -- London Limelight (1878-1884). The Lyceum ; First nights ; The Beefsteak room ; America. -- Literary Overtures (1884-1895). Mephistopheles ;The bloody play ; The occult ; Cruden Bay. -- Dracula's Secrets (1895-1912). Shaw's dilemma ; Dracula debuts ; Farewells ; The last wave
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- Theatrical managers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
- Biography
- Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
- Horror tales -- Authorship
- Vampires in literature
- Stoker, Bram
- Horror tales + Authorship
- History
- Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography
- Great Britain
- Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
- England + London
- Vampires in literature
- 1800-1899
- Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
- Theaters
- Theater
- Theatrical managers
- Theaters -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
- Theaters -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
- Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
- Novelists, English
- Biografie
- Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912 -- Biography
- Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography
- Theatrical managers -- Great Britain -- Biography
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- Theatrical managers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
- Biography
- Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
- Horror tales -- Authorship
- Vampires in literature
- Stoker, Bram
- Horror tales + Authorship
- History
- Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography
- Great Britain
- Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
- England + London
- Vampires in literature
- 1800-1899
- Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
- Theaters
- Theater
- Theatrical managers
- Theaters -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
- Theaters -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
- Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
- Novelists, English
- Biografie
- Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912 -- Biography
- Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography
- Theatrical managers -- Great Britain -- Biography
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