Saturday, July 24, 2010

AS SEEN ON TV: BRAM STOKER

BRAM STOKER

AS SEEN IN:
"Shadow In The North"

AS PLAYED BY:
Owen Roe

From Wikipedia:
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.

In 1878 Stoker married Florence Balcombe, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel James Balcombe of 1 Marino Crescent, a celebrated beauty whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde. Stoker had known Wilde from his student days, having proposed him for membership of the university’s Philosophical Society while he was president. Wilde was upset at Florence's decision, but Stoker later resumed the acquaintanceship, and after Wilde's fall visited him on the Continent.

The Stokers moved to London, where Stoker became acting-manager and then business manager of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, London, a post he held for 27 years.

It is at the Lyceum in 1878 where Mr. Stoker is encountered during Sally Lockhart's investigation for her client, Miss Walsh.

BCnU!

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