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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b9323387.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Dublin Dreams (1847-1878). The dreamer ; Trinity man ; Drama critic ; Henry Irving. -- London Limelight (1878-1884). The Lyceum ; First nights ; The Beefsteak room ; America. -- Literary Overtures (1884-1895). Mephistopheles ;The bloody play ; The occult ; Cruden Bay. -- Dracula's Secrets (1895-1912). Shaw's dilemma ; Dracula debuts ; Farewells ; The last wave.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-363) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xv, 381 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Bram Stoker.".
- catalog identifier "0679418326".
- catalog isFormatOf "Bram Stoker.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Knopf,".
- catalog relation "Bram Stoker.".
- catalog spatial "England London".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "823/.8 B 20".
- catalog subject "Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)".
- catalog subject "Horror tales Authorship.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, English 19th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "PR6037.T617 Z57 1996".
- catalog subject "Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912 Biography.".
- catalog subject "Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912.".
- catalog subject "Theater England London History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Theaters England London History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Theatrical managers Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Vampires in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Dublin Dreams (1847-1878). The dreamer ; Trinity man ; Drama critic ; Henry Irving. -- London Limelight (1878-1884). The Lyceum ; First nights ; The Beefsteak room ; America. -- Literary Overtures (1884-1895). Mephistopheles ;The bloody play ; The occult ; Cruden Bay. -- Dracula's Secrets (1895-1912). Shaw's dilemma ; Dracula debuts ; Farewells ; The last wave.".
- catalog title "Bram Stoker : a biography of the author of Dracula / Barbara Belford.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".