Showing posts with label Florence Stoker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florence Stoker. Show all posts
Saturday, March 14, 2015

Humans of London: Bram Stoker

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Again, my twist on Humans of New York, but London in the 1890s... Yesterday I posted one for Arthur Conan Doyle . Follow me on Twitt...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015

The Best of Writers in London in the 1890s

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There's a widget tin the column on the left that lists my most popular posts. The things that appear there sometimes surprise me. Now ...
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Monday, December 29, 2014

The Marriage Question

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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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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...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

Inside Bram Stoker's House

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Looking East along Cheyne Walk in the 1860s. I've been feeling very visual in my writing lately. I also edit as I write. Sometimes, ...
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

50 Random Things about Bram Stoker

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Bram Stoker 1. Bram Stoker was a good dancer and especially liked to waltz. 2. Stoker was named after his father, a clerk at Dublin ca...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Top Ten Reasons Oscar Wilde Hated His Brother

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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else. - The ...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Van Helsing meets Hamlet

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In spite of the fact that Bram Stoker's lasting fame is inextricably linked to Dracula, Stoker was most proud of and most dedicated ...
Saturday, May 11, 2013

The Most Valuable Poem in the World?

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This week a poem that Oscar Wilde wrote in college sold for almost €80,000. Aside from the bitter irony that, in the latter part of the ...
Saturday, March 9, 2013

Vampires or Bust

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With more writers opting to self-publish every year, I thought it might be encouraging to know that one of the greatest published his best w...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Poor O

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One of the most romanticized stories of Oscar Wilde's life is that of his relationship with Bram Stoker's wife, whose maiden nam...
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Friday, January 18, 2013

Rational Dress

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Thanks to Franny Moyle , I've come to see Oscar Wilde's wife as a far more complex character in the lives of writers in the 1890s....
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