Bram Stoker : a biography of the author of Dracula

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Bram Stoker : a biography of the author of Dracula

Title remainder

a biography of the author of Dracula

Statement of responsibility

Barbara Belford

Creator

• Belford, Barbara

Subject

• Biografie
• Biography
• Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
• Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
• Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
• England -- London
• Great Britain
• History
• Horror tales -- Authorship
• Horror tales -- Authorship
• Horror tales -- Authorship
• Novelists, English
• Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography
• Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography
• Stoker, Bram
• Stoker, Bram
• 1800-1899
• Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
• Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912 -- Biography
• Theater
• Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
• Theater -- England | London -- History -- 19th century
• Theaters
• Theaters -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
• Theaters -- England | London -- History -- 19th century
• Theatrical managers
• Theatrical managers -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Theatrical managers -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Vampires in literature
• Vampires in literature
• Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912

Genre

• History
• Biography

Language

eng

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 Irving
• We 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

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 823/.8
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR6037.T617

LC item number

Z57 1996

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography