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Bram Stoker

Abraham (Bram) Stoker was born November 8, 1847 at 15 The Crescent,
Clontarf, North of Dublin, the third of seven children. For the first 7
years of his life Stoker was bedridden with a myriad of childhood diseases
which afforded him much time to reading. By the time he went to college,
Stoker had somehow overcome his childhood maladies and while at Trinity
College, Dublin, the honor student was involved in soccer and was a
marathon running champion. He was also involved in various literary and
dramatic activities, a precursor to his later interests in the theater and
his involvement with the rising action Henry Irving, whose performance he
had critiqued as a student at Trinity. After ...

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forefront. In a four part serial called the "Chain of Destiny," were themes
that would become Stoker's trademark: horror mixed with romance, nightmares
and curses. Stoker encountered Henry Irving again, this time in the role of
Hamlet, 10 years after Stoker's Trinity days. Stoker, still very much the
critic (and still holding his civil service position), gave Irving's
performance a favorable review. Impressed with Stoker's review, Irving
invited Stoker back stage and the resultant friendship lasted until
Irving's death in 1905. The Stoker/Irving partnership solidified around the
year 1878. During this time Henry Irving had taken over his own theater
company called the London Lyceum, but he didn't like the management, and
therefore approached Stoker to handle business, at which point Stoker gave
up his government job and became the acting manager of the theater. A short
time after Stoker began his new career, the publishing house of Sampson,
Lowe contacted him expressing interest ...

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