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Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 25 years. First published as a serial in The Dark Blue (1871–72), [1] [2] the story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Countess Mircalla Karnstein.
Lucy Westenra is a fictional character in the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.She is the 19-year-old daughter of a wealthy family and is Mina Murray's best friend. Early in the story, Lucy gets proposed to by three suitors, Arthur Holmwood, John Seward, and Quincey Morris, on the same day.
Curiously despite the Brides being centuries older, Dracula gave Lucy command over them, likely because of her resistance to religious symbols due to being turned in a modern era. Dracula and his brides make a cameo appearance in the Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story "Night of the Living Gingerbread". [25]
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“Dracula’s Daughter” and other coded takes on lesbianism lit a cultural fire that exploded in the ‘60s and ‘70s. As censorship and restrictions on nudity waned, lesbian vampires morphed ...
But it is the women who occupy the dramatic high ground in this “Dracula,” beginning with Mia Hutchinson-Shaw as Lucy Westenra, who spends the bulk of her onstage time writhing and screaming ...
Academic Elizabeth Signorotti argues that Dracula is a response to the lesbian vampire of Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla (1872), "correcting" its emphasis on female desire. [25] Bram Stoker's great-nephew, broadcaster Daniel Farson , wrote a biography of the author; in it, he doubts that Stoker was aware of the lesbian elements of Carmilla , but ...
There have been numerous films based on Carmilla, an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years. The story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess ...