Dracula writer Bram Stoker revealed as a humble minute taker for actor charity

13 January 2024 · The Observer

Vanessa Thorpe

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Research into actors’ charitable records adds detail to Stoker’s work beyond his fiction.

Vanessa Thorpe, The Observer, 13 January 2024. The related illustration is Bernard Partridge’s notice for the charity’s dinner of 24 June 1891, with Irving in the chair. It is not the 1882 minute book discussed in the report.

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The Actors’ Benevolent Fund’s first annual dinner, 24 June 1891, with Henry Irving in the chair. This is a dinner notice, not the 1882 minutes.Bernard Partridge, 1891. Actors’ Benevolent Fund Archives, via Actors’ Trust.