[1] Bram Stoker incorporated some of her stories about the epidemic into his literature, such as "The Invisible Giant" in Under the Sunset.

[1] In 1844, Charlotte Thornely married Abraham Stoker, a civil servant, who was twenty years her senior.

[1][5][3] They had seven children together: William Thornley, Matilda, Abraham, Thomas, Richard, Margaret, and George.

[3] When her youngest child, George, turned eight, Stoker began her activist work for women, the poor, and the disabled.

[4] Seeing the harsh workhouse conditions and speaking with women who wanted to be more than servants in poor households, she reported her findings to Dublin newspapers.

At the end of her life, as Charlotte's eyesight failed, she feared going blind and hoped to die first.

[3] Accounts of Charlotte Stoker's date of death and place of burial vary.