Biographie de Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker was born in Dublin in 1847. He was christened Abraham after his father, a civil servant in Dublin Castle. In 1863, after a semi-invalid childhood, he entered Trinity College, Dublin, where he achieved notable success not only as a mathematician and in the Philosophical Society but also as an athlete. After graduating, and during a ten-year period as a civil servant, he made the acquaintance of Henry Irving, and between 1878 and 1905 he acted as Irving's touring manager and secretary.
He came to know all the major theatrical men and women of the age. He died in London in 1912. Bram Stoker's first book was The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1878). He went on to write short stories and several novels, of which Dracula (1897) is the best known; as well as his Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906). Maud Ellmann is a University Lecturer in English and a fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
She is the author of The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing and Imprisonment (1993) and The Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound (1987).