Dracula Published
June 26, 1897
Bram Stoker's Gothic novel about a Transylvanian count who preys on London matrons appeared to mixed reviews. It drew on Eastern European folklore, Victorian anxieties about sex and blood, and the new technologies of telegraphs and phonographs. The novel would outlive its century and the count, curiously enough, would outlive the novel.
In context
Also in 1897 (5 other events on record)
- First Zionist Congress · Europe · Politics
- J.J. Thomson's Electron · Europe · Science
- Ross Links Mosquito and Malaria · South Asia · Science
- Victoria's Diamond Jubilee · Europe · Politics
- Klondike Gold Rush · North America · Politics
Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Culture
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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