Bram Stoker speaks at the club
Bram Stoker gives a talk on ‘The State Censorship of Novels’ at the Whitefriars Club. He will later attend further dinners as a guest.
George Gissing, the celebrated author of the novel New Grub Street, which satirizes the literary and journalistic world of 1880s London, attended the 20th April 1900 Dinner as a guest of Friar Edward Clodd.

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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