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28 de fev. de 2021 · Joseph Sheridan Thomas Le Fanu nació en Dublín, el 28 de agosto de 1814, dentro de un núcleo familiar acomodado de procedencia hugonote. Nieto de Alice Sheridan Le Fanu , y sobrino nieto de Richard Brinsley Sheridan (ambos reconocidos dramaturgos), Le Fanu cursó la carrera de Derecho en el Trinity College, donde más tarde sería nombrado auditor de la Sociedad de Historia de La Universidad.
Between 1838 and 1840 Le Fanu had written and published twelve stories which purported to be the literary remains of an 18th-century Catholic priest called Father Purcell. Set mostly in Ireland they include classic stories of gothic horror, with grim, shadowed castles, as well as supernatural visitations from beyond the grave, together with madness and suicide.
Le Fanu, apesar da época, não se preocupou em esconder o gritante elemento lésbico que compõe a trama. Carmilla seduz vítimas do sexo feminino na narração. A impossibilidade de um vampiro entrar em um local sem que seja convidado, está presente em Carmilla. Fator que é bastante difundido em narrativas posteriores.
Born in Dublin in 1814, he came from a literary family of Huguenot origins; both his grandmother Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and his great-uncle Richard Brinsley Sheridan were playwrights. This story, part of Le Fanu's earliest earliest twelve short stories, written between 1838 and 1840, purport to be the literary remains of an 18th-century Catholic priest called Father Purcell.
Life [Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu; J. S. Le Fanu; infreq. var. LeFanu]; b. 28 Aug. [var. 26th], Dominick St., Dublin, grandson of Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu, R. B. Sheridan thereby being his great-uncle on the maternal side; son of Thomas Le Fanu, a Church of Ireland clergyman who was curate to his mat. gf. William Dobbin, rector of St. Mary’s, Dublin, and who later became chaplain of Royal ...
26 de ago. de 2014 · Le Fanu wrote as many as 10 "sensation novels" in the contemporary style of Wilkie Collins and others in the late 1860s and early 1870s but In a Glass Darkly, published in 1872, featured what were ...
