Charlotte Stoker

Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley Stoker (; 1818 – 15 March 1901) was an Irish charity worker, social reformer and writer, best known for being the mother of author Bram Stoker.

Early life Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley was born in 1818 in Sligo, Ireland, to Captain Thomas Thornley, a former soldier and member of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and Matilda Thornley (née Blake). Stoker's father was Anglo-Irish and her mother was Irish. Marion McGarry posites that her description of the epidemic also inspired Dracula.

Career When her youngest child, George, turned eight, Stoker began her activist work for women, the poor, and the disabled. Together they had 7 children: Sir William Thornley Stoker, 1st Baronet (1845–1912) medical writer, anatomist and surgeon; married Emily Eunice Stoker (née Cowderoy; 1841–1910) Matilda Stoker Petitjean (née Stoker; –); married Charles Auguste Petitjean Abraham 'Bram' Stoker (1847–1912) writer, barrister and theatre manager; married Florence Stoker (née Balcombe; 1858–1937) Thomas Stoker (1849–1925) civil servant in the Indian Civil Service; married Enid Stoker (née Bruce) Richard Nugent Stoker (1851–1931) military surgeon; married Susan Harden Dame Margaret Dalrymple Thomson (née Stoker; died 1928); married Sir William David Thomson, CB, F.R.C.S (1843–1909) surgeon and medical writer George Stoker To survive on Abraham's pension more comfortably, they moved, with their two daughters, to France in 1872. She was either buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery or Saint Michan's.

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