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Charlotte Stoker, Sligo and Dracula
26 April 2012 · The Sligo Champion
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Emma Gallager interviews Dennis McIntyre about Charlotte Stoker’s childhood in Sligo and his view of the town’s importance to Dracula. McIntyre discusses Charlotte’s experience of the 1832 cholera epidemic, the frightening accounts associated with it and his belief that such stories could have influenced Bram. The feature also advocates greater local recognition of the Stoker connection during the centenary of the writer’s death. This is evidence of a particular interpretation and of Sligo’s literary heritage activity in 2012. It does not establish a direct causal link between the epidemic and the novel. The Estate does not repeat the article’s uncertain burial claim, its unsourced mortality figures or its suggestion that Bram invented the word undead as established facts.
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