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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
learned a lot in the library of her maternal grandfather, whose books, she says, were mostly [Henry] Irving
's rejects. Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner, 1974. 66 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Maxwells had frequent house guests and entertained regularly at both their houses. Later friends and acquaintances included Robert Browning
, Mary Cholmondeley
, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
, Ford Madox Ford
, Thomas Hardy |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | Scholar Elizabeth Miller
discovered that Bram Stoker
's own notes identify EG
's Transylvanian Superstitions as a significant source for Dracula. Miller, Elizabeth, and Isobel Grundy. Email about Emily Gerard to Isobel Grundy. 23 Aug. 2003. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Atwood | Several stories in Good Bones delight in giving something to say for themselves to literary characters generally understood to be beyond sympathy (the stepmother, the ugly sister, Gertrude in Shakespeare
's Hamlet). Others employ... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Bird | This is one of the books that Bram Stoker
drew on for writing Dracula.The copy he used and annotated is now in the London Library
. “Latest News, The Books that Made Dracula”. The London Library, 26 Oct. 2018. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Angela Carter | Joseph Harker, a hospital orderly who suffers debilitating dreams, provides the third-person viewpoint of the narrative. As the lives of various characters randomly intersect, the plot is less significant than the situation. At the end... |
Leisure and Society | Violet Hunt | VH
hosted luncheons for Radclyffe Hall
, Bram Stoker
, H. G. Wells
and others at the Writers' Club
in Bruton Street. She later claimed: It was the first really literary and journalistic women's... |
Performance of text | Julia Constance Fletcher | The Sketch reported that the opening was attended by Fletcher herself, who appeared on stage after the curtain fell to acknowledge the enthusiastic applause of the audience, and by other luminaries including Oscar
and Constance Wilde |
Performance of text | Liz Lochhead | LL
's Dracula, a radically modified dramatization of the Bram Stoker
novel, was first presented at the Royal Lyceum Theatre
in Edinburgh. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 239 |
Publishing | Marie Corelli | The novel is an indictment of the Decadent Movement for its immorality and sensationalism, yet critic Annette R. Federico
notes that the antidecadent novel is packaged as the very flower of decadence, even down to... |
Publishing | Helen Mathers | HM
collaborated with Florence Marryat
, Julia Frankau
, Frances Eleanor Trollope
, Conan Doyle
, Bram Stoker
, Justin H. McCarthy
, Joseph Hatton
, and others in a serial novel, The Fate of Fenella, in The Gentlewoman. Maunder, Andrew. “Introduction”. The Fate of Fenella, Valancourt Books, 2008, p. vii - xxiii. vii Mathers, Helen et al. The Fate of Fenella. Cassell, 1892, 3 vols. titlepage “Summary of News”. The British Architect, 27 Nov. 1891, pp. 407-8. 408 |
Textual Features | Helen Oyeyemi | Miranda and Ore try to understand the house's haunting in terms of the soucouyant, a Caribbean supernatural character that sheds skin and traverses boundaries. Ore describes the terror of the soucouyant as the danger of... |
Textual Production | May Crommelin | The collaborators included Julia Frankau
, Clotilde Graves
, Margaret Hungerford
, Helen Mathers
, Florence Marryat
, Adeline Sergeant
, Tasma
, Frances Eleanor Trollope
, Conan Doyle
, and Bram Stoker
. The... |
Textual Production | Julia Frankau | In 1892 JF
contributed chapter twelve to a collaboratively-written novel entitled The Fate of Fenella (along with twenty-three other authors including Helen Mathers
, Frances Eleanor Trollope
, Conan Doyle
and Bram Stoker
). Frankau, Reuben. Emails to Orlando about Julia Frankau, with attached bibliography. 15–16 Aug. 2011. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | James Malcolm Rymer | JMR
's Varney the Vampyre appeared about mid-way in date between John Polidori
's The Vampire (1819) and Bram Stoker
's Dracula (1897). OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |