Bram Stoker: A Century in the Shadows

18 April 2012 · Irish Times

Arminta Wallace

Bram Stoker Estate account

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Arminta Wallace profiles the outwardly conventional civil servant whose imaginative life produced Dracula. She considers Stoker’s childhood, theatre criticism, devotion to Henry Irving and the continuing biographical questions and interpretations surrounding his private life.

Irish Times profile; relevant opening and biographical argument inspected. Speculation about private life remains the writer’s interpretation; exact publication date unconfirmed. The publisher’s saved structured publication metadata identifies 18 April 2012; this resolves the earlier unknown article date.

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