{"id":1751,"date":"2012-11-08T11:23:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T16:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2016-08-15T08:47:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T15:47:26","slug":"five-interesting-facts-about-bram-stoker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/five-interesting-facts-about-bram-stoker\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Interesting Facts about Bram Stoker (1847 – 1912)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BramBram Stoker, the author of Dracula<\/em>, \u00a0was born on November 8, 1847 and died on April 20, 1912.\u00a0 Here are five quick facts about the author that you may not know:<\/p>\n

1 – Although we may think of Stoker as being English, he was actually born in Clontarf, Ireland.\u00a0 (Clontarf is a suburb of Dublin.)<\/p>\n

2 – He was a sickly child and was bedridden for much of his first seven years.\u00a0\u00a0 However Stoker thrived after that.\u00a0 He grew to be over six feet tall.\u00a0 His red hair plus athletic build lead a biographer to refer to Stoker as a “red-haired giant.”<\/p>\n

3 – An early romantic interest of Oscar Wilde was Florence Balcombe.\u00a0 She eventually became the wife of Bram Stoker.<\/p>\n

4 – Stoker was a late bloomer in terms of his writing career.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t publish Dracula<\/em> until he was fifty years old.<\/p>\n

5 – Speaking of Dracula<\/em>, in the 1980s the original manuscript of the novel was found in a barn in Pennsylvania.\u00a0 It revealed that Stoker considered calling the novel THE UN-DEAD<\/em>.\u00a0 I don’t know about you, but I like Dracula<\/em> better.<\/p>\n

Quotations by Bram Stoker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Novels by Bram Stoker<\/h2>\n
    \n
  • The Primrose Path<\/li>\n
  • The Snake’s Pass<\/li>\n
  • The Watter’s Mou’<\/li>\n
  • The Shoulder of Shasta<\/li>\n
  • Dracula<\/li>\n
  • Miss Betty<\/li>\n
  • The Mystery of the Sea<\/li>\n
  • The Jewel of Seven Stars<\/li>\n
  • The Man (a.k.a. The Gates of Life)<\/li>\n
  • Lady Athlyne<\/li>\n
  • The Lady of the Shroud<\/li>\n
  • The Lair of the White Worm (a.k.a. The Garden of Evil)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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