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The Life of Bram Stoker
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The Life of Bram Stoker
By: Alexa Swartz
Early Life
- Abraham 'Bram' Stoker was born on November 8, 1847 in Dublin, Ireland.
- His parents were Abraham Stoker and Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley
- He was the third of seven children and was a very sick child.
- Since he was stuck in bed often, his mother would often entertain him with horror stories.
- This is where Bram's interest in the horror genre would begin.
College Life
- Though he was a very sick child, he would eventually turn into a very athletic boy.
- Due to this altheticism, he would eventually play football (or soccer) for Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland in 1864.
- Here he would earn his degree in mathmatics and graduate in 1870.
College Life
Bram Stoker's Parents
Abraham Stoker
Bram Stoker's Parents
Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley Stoker
Jobs
- His fisrt job was a civil servant at the Dublin Castle.
- He was also a drama critic at the Dublin Evening Mail as a part-time unpaid job.
- Stoker's most important job would be when he became, famed English actor, Sir Henry Irving's manager at his London based production company, the Lyceum Theatre, in 1878.
Images
- Oringinal banner for The Dublin Evening Mail.
Images
- Picture of the Lyceum Theatre that is still being used for productions today.
Later Life
- Soon after becoming Lyceum's manager and moving to London, he would marry his love, actress Florence Balcombe, in 1878.
- The following year they had their first and only son Irving Noel Thornley.
- He would work as the Lyceum's manager for almost 30 years, until the death of Sir Henry Irving in 1905.
- Seven years later, Bram would pass away on April 20, 1912 due to exhaustion from writing so much.
- Throughout his life, Bram had written more than a dozen novels.
Bram Stoker
Notable Works
- In 1875, Bram would publish his very first horror story, The Primrose Path.
- The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland was a legal administration handbook published in 1879.
- His most famous piece was Dracula which was written in 1897.
- The Lair of the White Worm (1911) which was adapted into a movie in 1988.
- Dracula's Guest and Other Wierd Stories was a collection of short stories published posthumous in 1914.
Dracula (1897)
- Bram Stoker's most famous book that has continued to garner much success.
- Gothic horror novel.
- Uses epistolary style, writting in the form of letters.
- The epistolary style gives a more personal feeling to the work since it delves into the minds and emotions of the characters moreso than third person would.
Dracula (1897) cont.
- It gave rise to a new branch of fiction that would become one of the most popular genre's in literature and films.
- It was a sensational novel that gave rise to many great works of literature too.
- Bram drew upon a few different sources to come up with Dracula that many believe to be the historical figure Vlad the Impalor and the "undead" folklore called nosferatu.
Work Cited
- Biography.com Editors. Biography.com, A&E Television Network, https://www.biography.com/people/bram-stoker-9495731. Accessed 20 Oct. 2017.
- "Bram Stoker ." History TV , History, www.history.co.uk/biographies/bram-stoker. Accessed 20 Oct. 2017.
- "Bram Stoker ." Top Five Books, Top Five Books, www.top-five-books.com/authors-bram-stoker.html. Accessed 20 Oct. 2017.
- "Was Dracula a real person?." History Stories, History, 17 June 2015, www.history.com/news/ask-history/was-dracula-a-real-person. Accessed 20 Oct. 2017.
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