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Bram Stoker by W. & D. Downey (photogravure, 1906)
NPG x3769 © National Portrait Gallery, London: Creative Commons
Abraham Stoker was a native of Dublin, a city which was then within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Throughout his life, he was known to all and sundry by a diminutive form of his first name: ‘Bram’. When he first came to the Library, the tall, physically-imposing teenager was employed in an entry-grade clerical position in Dublin Castle, a few minutes’ walk away, and was still formally enrolled as a student at Trinity College Dublin.
Bram Stoker’s name is well-known today because of his macabre horror novel of 1897, Dracula, but when it was published the book made little critical or commercial impact. It was only with the advent of cinema that the dramatic possibilities inherent in Stoker’s tale were fully realised and Count Dracula entered the consciousness of the general public.
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Bram Stoker by W. & D. Downey (photogravure, 1906)
NPG x3769 © National Portrait Gallery, London: Creative Commons,
Marsh's Library Exhibits,
accessed April 29, 2024,
https://www.marshlibrary.ie/digi/items/show/521