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Travel Writer Gothic Novel Romantic Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley Political Philosopher William Godwin Mary Wollstonecraft
Travel Writer Gothic Novel Romantic Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley Political Philosopher William Godwin Mary Wollstonecraft
novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for
her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted
the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was
the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary
Wollstonecraft.
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 Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned. Stoker
was born on 8 November 1847 at 15 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, on the northside of Dublin, Ireland.
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His parents were Abraham Stoker (1799–1876) from Dublin and Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley
(1818–1901), who was raised in County Sligo.[2] Stoker was the third of seven children, the eldest of
whom was Sir Thornley Stoker, 1st Bt.[3] Abraham and Charlotte were members of the Church of
Ireland Parish of Clontarf and attended the parish church with their children, who were baptised
there.[4]