Showing posts with label Dracula. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dracula. Show all posts
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Poe is nowhere, but Bram Stoker's mother is everything!

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Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley Stoker I was going to write a blog post today about the mothers of writers in London in the 1890s, but ...
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Friday, January 2, 2015

Pornography

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Victorian sexuality can be approached from so many directions, including (but not limited to) body image , sexual orientation , masturba...
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Sunday, November 30, 2014

20 Things You Should Know About Bram Stoker's Wife

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Florence Stoker (2 November 1880) Who was Bram Stoker's wife? Why should we care about her? Stoker wrote Dracula, surely that makes ...
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Monday, November 10, 2014

Bram Stoker & Oscar Wilde Kiss & Tell

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After many years of lipstick kisses, Oscar Wilde moved to a new tomb in 2011 How did Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde feel about kissing in t...
Friday, November 7, 2014

Who was Dracula?

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Who was Dracula? Ever since the novel was published in 1897, scholars and fans have been trying to answer this question. In honour of Bra...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Physiognomy and Vampires

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Now regarded as pseudoscience, physiognomy, the art of detecting one's character through the shape of their face, was widely accepte...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Sherlock Holmes and Retired Copyright

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Thanks to a legal battle between author, Leslie Klinger, and the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , the tales of Sherlock Holmes are now in...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Dracula After Stoker

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Something about finding Dracula serialized in the Washington Times five years after Bram Stoker died struck me. In 1917, it still looks v...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Dracula's Whitby (Part Two)

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Yesterday, I started sharing the pics I've been finding of Whitby in the 1890s, but ran out of time because there are so many great ima...
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Dracula's Whitby (Part One)

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A pictorial tour of Whitby in the 1890s.    Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes, and which...