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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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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 ...
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Dec 21, 2023 · Florence (Balcombe) Stoker is Notable. 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 ...
- Female
- July 17, 1858
- Abraham Stoker
- May 25, 1937
In December 1878, Stoker, then thirty-one years old, married Florence Balcombe, the nineteen-year-old daughter of an army colonel. Balcombe is famous in literary annals for having been the object of a serious crush by Oscar Wilde, who took the news of her marriage to Stoker hard.
Mar 3, 2022 · Born Florence Anne Lemon Balcombe in 1858 Ireland, the woman who eventually married Bram Stoker was Oscar Wilde’s fascination first. Wilde met her when she was 17 and he was on one of his many ...
Apr 17, 2022 · Florence Ann Lemon Balcombe was born in Falmouth, Cornwall on 17 July 1858, while her father, Lieutenant-Colonel James Balcombe, was stationed in Bombay. Given his involvement in the Crimean campaign, it is thought she was named for Florence Nightingale. The family moved to Ireland in 1860, when Florence was two years old.
Aug 29, 2021 · Florence Balcombe at seventeen, courted by Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker. Florence Anne Lemon Balcombe was one of five daughters born to Lt. Col. James and Phillipa Balcombe in 1858 in Ireland. Even without a dowry, at seventeen years of age, Florence caught the eye of fellow Dubliner, Oscar Wilde. “She is just 17 with the most perfectly ...
