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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.
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.
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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).
Aug 29, 2021 · 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...
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Feb 18, 2016 · The Women of Oscar Wilde. 13 Facts About the Ladies in His Life. By Eleanor Fitzsimons. February 18, 2016. On this day, February 18, 1895, John Sholto Douglas, better known to us perhaps as the brutish 9th Marquess of Queensberry, arrived at the Albemarle Club, a private members club in the exclusive Mayfair district of London.
Mar 3, 2022 · Happy birthday to Florence Balcombe, the wife of #Dracula author and Dubliner #BramStoker, born #onthisday in 1858! Before marrying Stoker, she dated #OscarWilde. This sketch of Balcombe – a...
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death, at the behest of his widow Florence Balcombe. [2] The same collection has been issued under short titles including simply Dracula's Guest.
