Florence Balcombe

Florence Stoker (née 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.

Life The daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel James Balcombe of 1 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, and of Phillippa Anne Marshall, She married Stoker in Dublin in 1878. He had known Wilde from their student days, and had proposed Wilde for membership of the university's Philosophical Society while he was president. Although Wilde was upset at Florence's decision, Stoker generally kept up the acquaintanceship, including visiting Wilde during his post-prison exile on the Continent.