Places, subjects, or plaques matching "bram stoker"
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The view from this spot inspired Bram Stoker (1847-1912) to use Whitby as the setting of part of his world-famous novel Dracula
Khyber Pass, Whitby, United Kingdom
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Bram Stoker 1847-1912 author of 'Dracula' lived here
18 St Leonard's Terrace, Kensington and Chelsea, SW3, London, United Kingdom
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Bram Stoker (1847-1912) Author of Dracula stayed here 1890-1896
6 Royal Crescent, Whitby, United Kingdom
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Bram Stoker 1847-1912 theatre manager and author of Dracula lived here
30 Kildare St Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland
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Dracula and Carfax House. 1897 Bram Stoker's novel 'Dracula'. Dracula moves to Carfax House at Purfleet on a bye road to London. Probably based on Purfleet House built by Samuel Whitbread, now the site of St. Stephens Church.
St. Stephens Church, Purfleet, United Kingdom
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Bram Stoker started writing Dracula here [full inscription unknown]
The Kilmarnock Arms, Bridge Street, Cruden Bay, United Kingdom
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Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley mother of author Bram Stoker lived on this street. Her experiences in 1832 of the Great Cholera Epidemic in Sligo provided the inspiration for Stoker's great Gothic novel Dracula
Teeling Street, Sligo, Ireland
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Henry Irving was the first actor to be knighted (1895). From 1878 - 1902 he managed the Lyceum Theatre. Whilst working at the Lyceum as Irving's acting manager, Bram Stoker wrote Dracula.
The Lyceum Theatre, London, United Kingdom
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Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine CH KBE (1853-1931) Caine was born in Bridgewater Street, at a time when his father was working at Runcorn Docks. Preferring to be known as just Hall Caine, he wrote novels (many of which were made into films, including one made by Alfred Hitchcock), plays, short stories, film-scripts, and many works of non-fiction. He was once one of the most successful authors in the world, with sales of his books numbering in the millions. For a time, he acted as secretary to the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and later wrote a book of recollections of his time spent with the famous painter and poet. Caine's friend Bram Stoker, dedicated his horror story 'Dracula' to him under Caine's nickname of 'Hommy-Beg'. He died at his home, Greeba Castle, on the Isle of Man.
The Clarendon pub, Bridgewater Street, Runcorn, United Kingdom
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Bram Stoker author of Dracula lived on Buckingham Street (1858 - 1864).
Buckingham Street, Dublin, Ireland