![]() ![]() The mother was two decades younger than her husband and a rugged west-of-Ireland woman who had survived the cholera epidemic of 1832 in her native Sligo. The Stokers, however, were solidly middle class, with the father a civil servant, working as a chief secretary at Dublin Castle, the administrative center of the country. In rural Ireland, this was the time of the potato famine in which around a million Irish people died of starvation and another million or more immigrated to the United States, Canada, and Australia to escape the horrors in their home country. and Charlotte Thornley Stoker on or about November 8, 1847, in Clontarf, a village just north of Dublin Bay. ![]() ![]() Works in Biographical and Historical ContextĬhildhood in Ireland Marked by Illness Bram Stoker was the third of seven children born to Abraham Stoker Sr. Stoker scholars often agree that with Dracula, Stoker not only created one of the most identifiable figures in popular culture but set the standards for all horror-mystery books that followed. Irish writer Bram Stoker wrote several novels in different genres, but he is typically, if not exclusively, best known for his Gothic horror novel Dracula (1897). The Lair of the White Worm (1911) Overview ![]()
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