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Florence Balcombe (17 July 1858 – 25 May 1937) was the wife and literary executor of Bram Stoker. She is remembered for her legal dispute with the makers of Nosferatu , an unauthorized film based on her husband's novel Dracula .
- Florence Anne Lemon Balcombe, 17 July 1858
- 25 May 1937 (aged 78), Knightsbridge, London, England
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Aug 10, 2023 · While not confirmed, there seems to be plenty of evidence that, despite his marriage to Florence Balcombe lasting until his death in 1912, Bram Stoker may have been gay. Homosexuality is hardly taboo today, but it was stigmatized by the prudish tastes that typified the Victorian era, maybe making it all the more urgent for Stoker to keep his ...
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Stoker, Florence (1858–1937), literary executor and wife of Bram Stoker (qv), was born Florence Anne Lemon Balcombe on 17 July 1858 in Falmouth, Cornwall. She was one of seven children (five girls, two boys) of James Balcombe of Kilkenny and Philippa Anne (née Marshall). Her father, an army officer, had served in the East Indies, the Crimea ...
Oct 26, 2016 · That Stoker married Florence Balcombe, who had previously been engaged to Wilde, is widely known, but were you aware that Owen Wister — author of the cowboy classic "The Virginian"— wanted to ...
Oct 30, 2011 · Shortly after meeting Henry Irving, Bram Stoker met an aspiring actress Florence Balcombe, daughter of Irish Lieutenant-Colonel James Balcombe. She had previously attracted the attention of Oscar Wilde but instead fell for Stoker and the couple were married on 4th December 1878.
The Lair of the White Worm is a horror novel by the Irish writer Bram Stoker. It was first published by Rider and Son of London in 1911 [1] [2] – the year before Stoker's death – with colour illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith. The story is based on the legend of the Lambton Worm.
May 26, 2020 · When F. W. Murnau’s film Nosferatu was released in 1922, Bram Stoker, Dracula’ s author, had been dead for a decade. His widow, Florence Balcombe Stoker, objected to the new film’s apparent relationship to her husband’s 1897 bestseller.
