![]() ![]() In the course of Irving's tours he got the chance to travel around the world. Through him he became involved in London's high society, where he met, among other notables, James McNeil Whistler and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The collaboration with Irving was very important for Stoker. The couple moved to London, where Stoker became business manager of Irving's Lyceum Theater, a post he held for 27 years. In 1878 Stoker married Florence Balcombe, a celebrated beauty whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde. His interest in theater led to a lifelong friendship with the English actor Henry Irving. ![]() In 1876, while he was employed as a civil servant in Dublin, he wrote theater reviews for The Dublin Mail, a newspaper partly owned by fellow horror writer J. ![]() He was auditor of the College Historical Society and president of the University Philosophical Society, where his first paper was on "Sensationalism in Fiction and Society". After his recovery, he became a normal young man even excelling as an athlete at Trinity College, Dublin (1864–70), from which he was graduated with honors in mathematics. ![]()
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