Queer Places:
15 Marino Cres, Northside, Dublin 3, D03 K078, Ireland
Trinity College, College Green, Dublin 2, D02 P710 Co. Dublin
30 Kildare St, Dublin, D02 X725, Ireland
6 Royal Cres, Whitby YO21 3EJ, UK
Golders Green Crematorium
Golders Green, London Borough of Barnet, Greater London, England
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an
Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.
During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor
Sir Henry Irving, and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which
Irving owned.
Stoker was a deeply private man, but his almost sexless marriage, intense adoration of Walt Whitman, Henry Irving and Hall Caine, and shared interests with Oscar Wilde, as well as the homoerotic aspects of Dracula have led to scholarly speculation that he was a repressed homosexual who used his fiction as an outlet for his sexual frustrations.[17] In 1912, he demanded imprisonment of all homosexual authors in Britain: it has been suggested that this was due to self-loathing and to disguise his own vulnerability.[18] Possibly fearful, and inspired by the monstrous image and threat of otherness that the press coverage of his friend Oscar's trials generated, Stoker began writing Dracula only weeks after Wilde's conviction.[18][19]
Trinity College
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