"the ""Order of the Falcon"" in Iceland. For his 80th birthday, a collective homage was published by the presses at Fata Morgana (Montpellier). Bram van Velde died on 28 December 1981 in Grimaud (near Arles), and is buried there. His mentor and friend Jacques Putman, who supported him and his career after Bram's departure from Maeght, is buried beside him (Putman died on 27 February 1994 in Paris). Bram van Velde Bram (Abraham Gerardus) van Velde (19 October 1895 in Zoeterwoude, near Leiden, Netherlands – 28 December 1981 in Grimaud, near Arles, France) was a Dutch painter known for an"
"his student days, having proposed him for membership of the university's Philosophical Society while he was president. Wilde was upset at Florence's decision, but Stoker later resumed the acquaintanceship, and after Wilde's fall visited him on the Continent. The Stokers moved to London, where Stoker became acting manager and then business manager of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, London, a post he held for 27 years. On 31 December 1879, Bram and Florence's only child was born, a son whom they christened Irving Noel Thornley Stoker. The collaboration with Henry Irving was important for Stoker and through him he became involved in"
"a different pen-name, Oliver Linden. She reverted to her more familiar pseudonym for a third volume, ""Curiouser and Curiouser"", published in 1932. Towards the end of the 1920s, finding it difficult to keep up the supply of new stories for Low's cartoon series, Brahms enlisted the help of a Russian friend, S. J. Simon, whom she had met at a hostel when they were both students. The partnership was successful, and Brahms and Simon started to write comic thrillers together. The first, ""A Bullet in the Ballet"", had its genesis in a frivolous fantasy spun by the collaborators when Brahms"
"was appointed Officer of Health for the parish jointly with James Colville. On 30 December 1847 Abraham, son of Abraham and Charlotte Matilda Stoker of The Crescent, Clontarf, was baptised by Rev. Edward, a visiting clergyman from the Diocese of Ossory. Bram Stoker, as he became known, was the creator of the Dracula stories and is commemorated today in the Bram Stoker Museum in Westwood Club near the Crescent. Bram's family later moved to Artane Lodge but his younger siblings were also baptised in Clontarf. The church, meanwhile, was becoming too small for its growing congregations, especially in the summer."
"Charlotte Mary Brame Charlotte Mary Brame (usually known as Charlotte M. Brame, last name sometimes mistakenly given as Braeme; appeared under pseudonyms in America, notably Bertha M. Clay, and was sometimes identified by the name of her most famous novel, Dora Thorne) (1 November 1836 – 25 November 1884) was an English novelist. She was born in Hinckley, Leicestershire, to Benjamin and Charlotte Agnes Law, devout Roman Catholics. After attending convent schools in Bristol and Preston and a finishing school in Paris, she worked as a governess before marrying Phillip Edward Brame (1839–1886), a London-based jeweller, on 7 January 1863."
"Bram Stoker Award The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for ""superior achievement"" in dark fantasy and horror writing. The Awards have been presented annually since 1987, and the winners are selected by ballot of the Active members of the HWA. They are named after Irish horror writer Bram Stoker, author of the novel ""Dracula"", among others. Several members of the HWA—including Dean Koontz—were reluctant to endorse such writing awards, fearing it would incite competitiveness rather than friendly admiration. The HWA therefore went to lengths to avoid mean-spirited competition, they agreed to"
"William B. Brahms William Bernard Brahms (born October 1, 1966) is an American librarian, encyclopedist, author and historian best known for his encyclopedic works on historical ""lasts"" (as opposed to ""firsts""), in particular, the reference works ""Notable Last Facts: A Compendium of Endings, Conclusions, Terminations and Final Events Throughout History"" (2005) and ""Last Words of Notable People: Final Words of More than 3500 Noteworthy People Throughout History"" (2010). ""Last words"" and ""last facts"" are subjects for which his works are cited as an authoritative resources. William B. Brahms was born in Camden, New Jersey and was raised and still lives"
"‘Bitty-Bit’ (Right Now!),” and a ballad, “To You, Dear, To You.” The esteem in which Braham was held by the profession is evidenced by a formal and sympathetic obituary printed in The Billboard. Edmund Braham Edmund Braham (October 8, 1860 – November 1, 1921) was a pianist, composer, and publisher active in the United States after 1895. Born Edmund Phineas Abrahams in London to upper-class parents Israel and Phoebe Abrahams, Edmund changed his surname sometime before 1895, when he moved permanently to the United States. He was reputed to have toured widely before then, beginning as a child virtuoso. From"
"male-dominated field, her works of charity, and her personal stamina and resilience, in the face of family tragedy and ill health, represent a triumph in adversity. Following Brame's death, the pen-name ""Bertha M Clay"" was used by other writers, including her own daughter. Among these were William J. Benners, William Cook, John R. Coryell, Frederick Dacre, Frederick Dey, Charles Garvice, Thomas C. Harbaugh, and Thomas W. Henshaw. Charlotte Mary Brame Charlotte Mary Brame (usually known as Charlotte M. Brame, last name sometimes mistakenly given as Braeme; appeared under pseudonyms in America, notably Bertha M. Clay, and was sometimes identified by"
"In the novel ""The Crimson Petal and the White"", by Michel Faber, William Rackham purchases a brougham as a surprise gift for his wife, Agnes Rackham, with the help of his mistress, a former prostitute known as Sugar. Brougham (carriage) A brougham (pronounced ""broom"" or ""brohm"") was a light, four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage built in the 19th century. It was named after Scottish jurist Lord Brougham, who had this type of carriage built to his specification by London coachbuilder Robinson & Cook in 1838 or 1839. It had an enclosed body with two doors, like the rear section of a coach;"
"verse for the student magazine. The London evening newspaper ""The Evening Standard"" began to print some of her verses. Brahms adopted her pen-name so that her parents should not learn of her activities: they envisaged ""a more domestic future"" for her than journalism. The name ""Caryl"" was also usefully ambiguous as regards gender. In 1926, the artist David Low began to draw a series of satirical cartoons for ""The Evening Standard"", featuring a small dog named ""Mussolini"" (later shortened to ""Musso"", after protests from the Italian embassy). Brahms was engaged to write the stories for the cartoons. In 1930, Brahms"
"Brandram. The opera was then played by several D'Oyly Carte companies on provincial tours in 1893–96 and 1898–99. The title role was played by Henry Lytton in the 1893–96 tours, with Courtice Pounds repeating his role of the curate. ""Cox and Box"" was played as a curtain raiser. Act 1: Low Church. The Village Green. The Rev. William Barlow, the Vicar of Bray, became Low Church to marry his rich wife who, now dead, has left him with a daughter, Dorothy. Dorothy is in love with her father's curate, Henry Sandford, a priggish, pompous and verbose young man. The Vicar"
"1876 and 1928, twenty-seven different publishers issued titles under the name Bertha M. Clay. Six novels were translated into other languages. Bertha M. Clays appeared in fourteen different series and eleven different 'libraries'."" Books could appear under different titles, some staying in print for 47 years. Street and Smith's ""new Bertha M. clay Library"" ran to more than four hundred volumes. Eighty-eight Clays are known to be extant. Bertha M. Clay Bertha M. Clay is a literary pseudonym first used by Charlotte Mary Brame (based on the reversal of the initials). After Brame's death on 25 November 1884, Brame's daughter"
"a statuette made by New York firm, Society Awards. The terms Bram Stoker Award and Bram Stoker Awards are registered trademarks of the Horror Writers Association. The Bram Stoker Award is presented for Superior achievement in the following categories, as of 2013: Discontinued categories include: Past award winners include: Bram Stoker Award The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for ""superior achievement"" in dark fantasy and horror writing. The Awards have been presented annually since 1987, and the winners are selected by ballot of the Active members of the HWA. They are"
"Fantasy Award, and the winner of the first Bram Stoker Award given in the category of ""Best Poetry Collection"". Thomas Piccirilli Thomas Piccirilli (May 27, 1965 – July 11, 2015) was an American novelist and short story writer. Piccirilli sold over 150 stories in the mystery, thriller, horror, erotica, and science fiction fields. Some of his stories were included in Eden Studios' zombie anthologies edited by James Lowder. Piccirilli was a two-time winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for ""Best Paperback Original"" (2008, 2010). He is a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award. He was also a finalist"
"with Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, as the two words (Holmes and Harms) start and end similarly, as well as a number of other theories. While at Saint Peter's, he learned the rudiments of both English and German, and it may have been the English ""harm"" and ""charm"" that he incorporated into ""Kharms"". Throughout his career, Kharms used variations on this name and the pseudonyms DanDan, Khorms, Charms, Shardam, and Kharms-Shardam, among others. In 1924, he entered the Leningrad Electrotechnicum, from which he was expelled for ""lack of participation in socially conscious activities"". After his expulsion, he gave himself over"
"Caryl Brahms Caryl Brahms, born Doris Caroline Abrahams (8 December 1901 – 5 December 1982), was an English critic, novelist, and journalist specialising in the theatre and ballet. She also wrote film, radio and television scripts. As a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Brahms was dissatisfied with her own skill as a pianist, leaving without graduating. She contributed light verse, and later stories for satirical cartoons, to the London paper ""The Evening Standard"" in the late 1920s. She recruited a friend, S. J. Simon, to help her with the cartoon stories, and in the 1930s and"
"Christopher Bram Christopher Bram (born 1952) is an American author. Bram grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia (outside Norfolk), where he was a paperboy and an Eagle Scout. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1974 (B.A. in English). He moved to New York City in 1978. His nine novels range in subject matter from gay life in the 1970s to the career of a Victorian musical clairvoyant to the frantic world of theater people in contemporary New York. Fellow novelist Philip Gambone wrote of his work, ""What is most impressive in Bram's fiction is the psychological"
"been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar. The diligent, highly constructed nature of Brahms's works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers. Embedded within his meticulous structures, however, are deeply romantic motifs. Brahms's father, Johann Jakob Brahms (1806–72), was from the town of Heide in Holstein. The family name was also sometimes spelt 'Brahmst' or 'Brams', and derives from 'Bram', the German word for the shrub broom. Against the family's will, Johann Jakob pursued a career in music, arriving in Hamburg in 1826, where he found work as a"
"The Lair of the White Worm The Lair of the White Worm is a horror novel by the Irish writer Bram Stoker. It was first published by Rider and Son of London in 1911 – the year before Stoker's death – with colour illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith. The story is based on the legend of the Lambton Worm. It has also been issued as The Garden of Evil. In 1925 a highly abridged and rewritten form was published. It was shortened by more than 100 pages, the rewritten book having only 28 chapters instead of the original 40. The"
"Egyptian Art dealer (and his family) who was haggling too much over buying stolen art. From there he went to the Middle East seeking entry into various mystery schools. He returned to England in 1872 where he set himself up as the kingpin of criminal activity in England, and forged an alliance with the Dark Brotherhood to enslave the world. Bram Stoker meets the gang in Whitby, he is there investigating rumours of an incident regarding members of the Manchester Players. It is clear how the master storyteller has been influenced by the events he witnesses to write his masterpriece"
"Manchester. During the herring boom the fishers abandoned the village for the summer season, seeking more lucrative employment in Peterhead. Enterprisingly, those left behind temporarily converted a few of the cottages into a series of tearooms serving the moneyed holidaymakers visiting Cruden Bay. Among the visitors was Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, who eventually retired to the place. Near the village, just off the south end of the Cruden sands, lies the treacherous area of semi-submerged rocks known as the Skares, the site of many shipwrecks and source of local lore, and inspiration to Stoker’s novel The Mystery of the"
"but is in many respects a political thriller. Stoker draws from personal experience and incorporates historical strands from the Spanish–American War as well as the sixteenth-century conflict between Spain and Elizabethan England, using these events to explore important themes of his time such as national identity and changing concepts of womanhood. Although ""The Mystery of the Sea"" received many favorable reviews when it was published (and many of the criticisms it received could be equally well applied to ""Dracula""), it has been significantly overshadowed in scholarship and criticism by ""Dracula"". Bram Stoker was born on November 8, 1847 in Dublin,"
"Tim Burton. In 2011, accompanied by his wife Birgit, and on the 164th anniversary of the birth of Bram Stoker, Lee was honoured with a tribute by University College Dublin, and described his honorary life membership of the UCD Law Society as ""in some ways as special as the Oscars"". He was awarded the Bram Stoker Gold Medal by the Trinity College Philosophical Society, of which Stoker was President, and a copy of ""Collected Ghost Stories of MR James"" by Trinity College's School of English. Christopher Lee Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was"
"whose contributors included William Gladstone, but it was closed by the publishers after only four issues. Samuelson died in 1919. In 2018 it was discovered that Bram Stoker, author of ""Dracula"" (1897), had consulted a copy of Samuelson's ""Roumania Past and Present"" (1882) in the London Library as research when writing his book. James Samuelson James Samuelson (1829-1919) was a Liverpool industrialist, magazine founder and editor, barrister of the Middle Temple and prolific British non-fiction author known for his works on the history of the Balkans and on social and philosophical topics. James Samuelson was born in Liverpool in 1829"
"Bram Stoker's 1897 novel ""Dracula"". The expression ""Dracula"", which is now primarily known as the name of a fictional vampire, was for centuries known as the sobriquet of VladIII. Diplomatic reports and popular stories referred to him as ""Dracula"", ""Dracuglia"", or ""Drakula"" already in the 15thcentury. He himself signed his two letters as ""Dragulya"" or ""Drakulya"" in the late 1470s. His name had its origin in the Romanian sobriquet of his father, Vlad Dracul (""Vlad the Dragon""), who received it after he became a member of the Order of the Dragon. Dracula is the Slavonic genitive form of Dracul, meaning"
"Claude Brami Claude Brami, (born 20 Decembre 1948 in Tunis, is a French writer, winner of the 1982 Prix des libraires. During the 1970s, he wrote a dozen detective novels under the pseudonyms Christopher Diable and Julien Sauvage. He was a great lover of detective novels from the age of eleven. In 1968, while still a student, he wrote his first book. ""La Lune du fou"" appeared in 1973 under the pseudonym Julien Sauvage. Fifteen police novels will follow under this pseudonym, whose series devoted to the exploits of the adventurer Bruno Campara, nicknamed the Condottiere and three novels of"
"Otto Brahm Otto Brahm (born Otto Abrahamson on 5 February 1856 in Hamburg; died 28 November 1912 in Berlin) was a German drama and literary critic, theatre manager and director. His productions were noted for being accurate and realistic. He was involved in the foundation of the progressive ""Die Freie Bühne"" (English: ""Free Stage"") company, of which he became president and producer. He also edited the company's weekly magazine of the same name, but later changed its name to ""Die neue Rundschau"". Brahm also managed the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, and was responsible for modernising its output. From Heinz Herald's"
"Baum not knowing what he is talking about. His biography, of L. Frank Baum, ""To Please a Child"" was written after being estranged from his mother, and contains numerous made up details. Benjamin Ward Baum, a barrel maker turned oil investor, originally did not want his son taking up acting under the family name, so he adopted the pseudonym of George Brooks. Eventually, Benjamin Baum bought a theatre in Richburg, New York, calling it Baum's Opera House, and relaxed the idea of one of his own performing in them, thinking it might well represent the interest of the company by"
"skipping among historic scenes, which they often deride, and personal jokes and puns, and telling a ridiculous story while they communicate a preposterous – yet strangely suggestive – impression of nineteenth-century life."" To follow their Victorian book, Brahms and Simon went back to Elizabethan times, with ""No Bed for Bacon"" (1941). Unlike the earlier work, the narrative and allusions are confined to the age in which the book is set. The plot concerns a young woman who disguises herself as a boy to gain membership of Richard Burbage's and William Shakespeare's, theatrical company (a device later employed by Tom Stoppard"
"Braham Murray Braham Sydney Murray, OBE (12 February 1943 – 25 July 2018) was an English theatre director. In 1976, he was one of five founding Artistic Directors of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, and the longest serving (he retired in 2012). Braham Goldstein was born in North London, the son of Samuel Goldstein. His name became Murray when his mother re-married and Philip Murray became his step-father. He attended Clifton College, Bristol, at the age of 13 where he acted in ""The Bespoke Overcoat"" by Wolf Mankowitz (adapted from a Gogol short-story) and directed Ibsen’s ""Brand"" in school"
"Bertha M. Clay Bertha M. Clay is a literary pseudonym first used by Charlotte Mary Brame (based on the reversal of the initials). After Brame's death on 25 November 1884, Brame's daughter began to write under the name. At the same time the pseudonym became a house name of Street & Smith, where ""a dozen male writers"" including John Russell Coryell and Frederick Merrill Van Rensselaer Dey wrote under the name. Other authors known to have used the name are Gilbert Patten, William J. Benners, William Wallace Cook, Frederick Dacre, Charles Garvice, Thomas C. Harbaugh, and Thomas W. Henshaw. ""Between"
"to the public, skipping among historic scenes, which they often deride, and personal jokes and puns, and telling a ridiculous story while they communicate a preposterous – yet strangely suggestive – impression of nineteenth-century life."" To follow their Victorian book, Brahms and Simon went back to Elizabethan times, with ""No Bed for Bacon"" (1941). Unlike the earlier work, the narrative and allusions are confined to the age in which the book is set. The plot concerns a young woman who disguises herself as a boy to gain membership of Richard Burbage's, and more particularly William Shakespeare's, theatrical company (a device"