To My Dear Friend Hommy-Beg
The Great Frienship of Bram Stoker and Hall Caine
Bram Stoker
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“Hall Caine was an incredible literary phenomenon, becoming the richest and most popular novelist of the late Victorian and Edwardian era, greatly outselling all of his rivals from Henry James to Joseph Conrad. By the end of the twentieth century all of his novels were out-of-print, and ironically his major claim to fame now comes from being the dedicatee of Dracula, albeit under the disguised family nickname of “Hommy-Beg”. It is a bizarre twist of fate that Bram Stoker is now so much more famous worldwide than Hall Caine—an unbelievable reversal of their roles one hundred years ago.”
This booklet explores the intimate, lifelong friendship between Stoker and Caine in their own words. Accompanying an introduction by Stoker scholar Richard Dalby are rare and un-reprinted pieces including letters, extracts from Caine’s autobiographical My Story (1908) and Stoker’s Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906), Stoker’s introductions to The Works of Hall Caine (1905) and hitherto unknown essay “The Ethics of Hall Caine” (1909), Caine’s touching obituary to Stoker (1912), and a reproduction of Stoker’s inscription to Caine in the latter’s copy of Dracula—printed here for the first time.
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Bram Stoker Series #5
Cover design by Brian J. Showers
Introduction by Richard Dalby
ISBN: N/A
Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College. As a young man he worked as a civil servant at Dublin Castle, and as an unpaid theatre critic for local newspapers. He is best remembered today for his classic novel Dracula (1897), but during his lifetime he was known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving, and business manager of Irving’s Lyceum Theatre in London. Other notable works include The Jewel of Seven Stars and The Lair of the White Worm.
- More on Bram Stoker can be found in various issues of The Green Book
To My Dear Friend Hommy-Beg: The Great Friendship of Bram Stoker and Hall Caine (Bram Stoker Series #5). Cover design by Brian J. Showers; introduction by Richard Dalby; selected and edited by Brian J. Showers; copyedited by Jim Rockhill; published by Swan River Press.
Booklet: Published April 2011; limited to 125 copies; 48 pages; laser printed on 75 gsm paper; hand-sewn binding; ISBN: N/A.
