Their Mothers: The Roots of Greatness
Long before Count Dracula ever emerged from the shadows of Transylvania to haunt Gothic literature, the dark imagination of Bram Stoker was cultivated in a bedridden childhood in Dublin. The architect of that imagination was his mother, Charlotte Blake Thornley Stoker. A woman of formidable intelligence, social conscience and narrative flair, she provided the emotional foundation and gothic raw material…
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