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Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley Stoker (1818–1901) was an Irish writer, activist and the mother of Bram Stoker. [1] Stoker used some of the stories she told him in his literature. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death, at the behest of his widow Florence Balcombe. [2] The same collection has been issued under short titles including simply Dracula's Guest. Meanwhile, collections published under longer titles contain ...
His parents were Abraham Stoker (1799–1876), an Anglo-Irishman from Dublin and Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley (1818–1901), of English and Irish descent, who was raised in County Sligo. [4] Stoker was the third of seven children, the eldest of whom was Sir Thornley Stoker , 1st Baronet . [ 5 ]
His parents were Abraham Stoker (1799–1876), from Dublin, and Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley (1818–1901), who was raised in Sligo town. Charlotte's father, Thomas Thornley, came from Ballyshannon, a town in the south of County Donegal; the Protestant Thornleys were of "comfortable although certainly not luxurious means". Charlotte was a ...
Charlotte Blake Thornley, the mother of Bram Stoker was a witness to the cholera outbreak as the family were living on Old Market Street in the town at the time. They survived by fleeing to Ballyshannon having to break the cordon to do so. She wrote a vivid account of the beginning and aftermath of the outbreak.
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Stoker is a surname. Those bearing it include: Amanda Stoker (born 1982), Australian politician; Austin Stoker (1930–2022), Trinidadian-American actor; Bob Stoker, Northern Ireland politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (1999–2000) Bram Stoker (1847–1912), Irish writer; Charlotte Stoker (1818-1901), activist and mother of Bram Stoker
6. The Hours (2003). Cast: Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Ed Harris, Claire Danes Rating: PG-13 The lives of three women from different generations are intertwined through Virginia Woolf’s 1925 ...