In July 1890, Oscar Wilde called at the Whitefriars Club’s rooms at Anderton’s Hotel and had a long talk about Dorian Gray with Friar Sidney Low, then editor of the St James’s Gazette.
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On 16th June 1899, more than twenty-five years from his first visit, the celebrated humorist Mark Twain returned to the Whitefriars Club.
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A prolific writer and an important figure of the London theatre world, Bram Stoker (1847–1912) is now best remembered for his 1897 novel Dracula, in which he established many of the enduring elements of the western vampire myth.
Bram Stoker was the club guest speaker at the Shakespeare Dinner of 14th April 1905. Having been made a Friar on 1st December that year, he attended several subsequent dinners, and spoke again at the club about ‘The State Censorship of Novels’ on 18th October 1907.
