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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 .
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 ...
In 1878, Stoker married Florence Balcombe, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel James Balcombe of 1 Marino Crescent. She was a celebrated beauty whose former suitor had been Oscar Wilde. Stoker had known Wilde from his student days, having proposed him for membership of the university's Philosophical Society while he was president.
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).
Mar 31, 2023 · Another resident of the crescent was Florence Balcombe who was a decade younger than Bram but who he married in 1878. A celebrated beauty and aspiring actress once courted by Oscar Wilde, she...
Dec 21, 2023 · Florence Balcombe was born on the 17th of July in 1858 [1] to Lieutenant Colonel James Balcombe and Phillippa Anne Marshall. She married Abraham "Bram" Stoker in 1878. [2] and had only one child, Irving Noel Thornley Stoker. She outlived her husband by 25 years, his death being in 1912, and passed on the 25th of May in 1937.
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Apr 18, 2012 · The fact he married an actor called Florence Balcombe, with whom he had a child, Irving Noel Thornley Stoker, simply adds fuel to these interpretative flames, because Balcombe’s boyfriend...
