Novelist and theatre manager. Born Dublin. Came to London in 1878 with his new wife Florence Balcombe, previously Oscar Wilde's squeeze. Wrote Dracula whilst he was Irving’s acting manager at the Lyceum Theatre, possibly basing the Count's character on Irving. Maurice Richardson in ‘The Psychoanalysis of Ghost Stories’ (1959) described Dracula as: “a kind of incestuous, necrophilious, oral-anal-sadistic all-in wrestling match”. The first to number the seats in the auditorium and to promote advanced bookings. Died at home, 26 St George's Square, Pimlico.
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Bram Stoker
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Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker, 1847 - 1912, author of ‘Dracula’, lived here. Greater London Cou...
Lyceum Theatre
Edgar Allan Poe's maternal grandparents performed as actors at this theatre, ...
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William Combe
Writer. Chiefly remembered as the author of 'The Three Tours of Dr Syntax', a comic poem which satirised William Gilpin.
1 memorial
Dame Edith Sitwell
Poet and biographer. Born at Scarborough into the aristocracy. 6-foot tall, with elongated features she added to the effect with her exuberant flowing and ornate clothing. Her poetry was avant ...
2 memorials
William Hazlitt
Essayist. Initially wanted to be a philosopher, then tried painting and then journalism, where he was a success: as a drama reviewer, art critic, political commentator and creating sports writing ...
3 memorials
Samuel Pepys
Diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty. Born Salisbury Court, where his father ran a tailoring business. The house backed onto St Brides church. Highly regarded administrator of the navy. Served C...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous
16 memorials
Bruce Bairnsfather
Cartoonist. WW1 artist. Born Muree, India. He was serving on the western front at the time of the Christmas Truce of 1914 and drew and wrote about it. An article in the Malvern Gazette 21/9/11, pro...
Person, Art, Literature, France, India
1 memorial
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Captain J. O. Cooper
W2, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lido, Lansbury's Lido
The poem is part of ‘Riddles’, R.F.C. by John Drinkwater, 1918.
War dead | WW1
1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Osbert Lancaster
W11, Elgin Crescent, 79
Sir Osbert Lancaster, 1908 - 1986, cartoonist and writer, was born here. English Heritage
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Richard Tauber
Lyric tenor. Born Austria. An an international star he came to London a few times: 1931, 1938 and lastly when already diagnosed with lung cancer he was invited by the Vienna State Opera to perfor...
1 memorial
Sir Edward Henry
W8, Sheffield Terrace, 19
In 1912 this doorstep was the site of an assassination attempt. Henry arrived home to be met by a gunman, a disgruntled cab driver who'd...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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