Charlotte Stoker’s Account of ‘The Cholera Horror’ – Portuguese translation

2011 · Mafuá / Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Iliane Tecchio; original account by Charlotte Stoker

Bram Stoker Estate account

Estate summary

Iliane Tecchio presents a Portuguese translation of Charlotte’s recollections of the 1832 cholera epidemic in Sligo, together with an English reading text. The account describes fear, hurried burials, household precautions, neighbours’ deaths and the family’s difficult attempt to find refuge. The journal identifies its printed source through the 2003 Penguin Dracula appendix and Harry Ludlam’s 1962 biography. It is a modern bilingual republication of Charlotte’s retrospective account, not a scan of her handwritten letter or a contemporary newspaper report of 1832. Charlotte’s memories and the introduction’s claims about their influence on Bram should be distinguished from independently verified epidemic history.

Mafuá, number 16, 2011; translator Iliane Tecchio. This is a later bilingual transcription, not Charlotte’s original manuscript. Its editorial introduction and the differences between the English and Portuguese texts require care; no definitive new letter transcription is claimed.

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Charlotte Stoker, Bram’s mother.Courtesy of the Bram Stoker Estate.