Jan 3, 2010
The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Stoker, Bram
Stoker, Bram
(
Abraham
Stoker
)
(
1847
–
1912
),
born in Dublin. He gave up his career as a civil servant there in
1878
to become
Sir
H.
Irving
's secretary and touring manager for the next 27 years, an experience that produced Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (
1906
). Stoker wrote a number of novels and short stories, as well as some dramatic criticism, but is chiefly remembered for
Dracula
(
1897
), a tale of vampirism influenced by ‘Carmilla’, one of the stories in
Le Fanu's
In a Glass Darkly
(
1872
).
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