... returned from a cruise and opened with The Merchant of Venice, which ran for 250 nights. When the season was over Irving and Stoker went on vacation, returning only for the christening of Bram and Florence's only child Irving Noel Thornley Stoker born December 31st, 1879. During the theater season ... became the first actor to receive a knighthood from the queen. In 1890, when his romance novel The Snake's Pass was published, he was already making notes for a novel with a vampire theme. In August Stoker, looking for a quiet place to write, took a walking tour of the Scottish coast betwe...

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