Polly Poe

Polly Poe
Biographical Information
Alias	Mrs. Poe
Physical Description
Gender	Female
Hair	Dark (film)
Eye	Blue (film)
Skin	Light (film)
Relationships
Family Members	Edgar Poe, Albert Poe (sons) Eleanora Poe (sister-in-law)
Love Interests	Arthur Poe (husband)
Affiliation
Loyalty	Poe Family
Behind the Scenes
Appearances	The Bad Beginning
Adaptation Appearances	2004 film See: Eleanora Poe
Portrayed by	Maggie Albright (multi-voice recording) Deborah Theaker (film)

“	Well, you three had better start packing. Edgar, Albert, please help me clear the table.	”
	— Polly Poe, The Bad Beginning

Polly Poe is, in the books, Arthur Poe's wife and the mother of Albert and Edgar.

Biography

Early Life

Polly married Arthur Poe, and the two of them had two sons, Edgar and Albert Poe.

Poe frequently mentions her, and is willing to buy her expensive gifts, implying that they have a good and stable relationship.

The Bad Beginning

The Baudelaires stay with her and Mr. Poe at their house prior to living with Count Olaf. She buys a lot of itchy and ugly clothing for them.

Later Life

Mr. Poe adds "Call my wife!" to the list of random cries for help he utters in The Reptile Room when he thought that Sunny Baudelaire had been poisoned by the Incredibly Deadly Viper.

At one point Mr. Poe says that he will tell his wife that dark is in, indicating that she is quite a fashionable woman, or at least tries to be. Mr. Poe is even willing to pay $409 for an ocean decoration of a red herring, likely for her.

2004 Film Divergent Canon

The Baudelaire orphans do not appear to have stayed with the Poes for any length of time.

Polly can be seen seated beside her husband watching The Marvelous Marriage with opera glasses, and she shares a confused look with him when Count Olaf's plot is revealed. After Klaus Baudelaire burns the marriage certificate, she is in the crowd that apprehends Olaf.

She is portrayed by Deborah Theaker.

Family

Unknown

Eleanora Poe

Arthur Poe

Polly Poe

Edgar Poe

Albert Poe

Trivia

• In the 2003 Multi-Voice Recording of The Bad Beginning, she is voiced by Maggie Albright. 
• In the Netflix adaptation, Polly Poe's role as Mr. Poe's wife has been combined with Eleanora Poe (portrayed by Cleo King) and Geraldine Julienne, all of them being Eleanora, Poe's wife and a reporter and editor for The Daily Punctilio.

Appearances

Books
A Series of Unfortunate Events (Books)
1. The Bad Beginning (1999):	Debut	7. The Vile Village (2001):	Mentioned
2. The Reptile Room (1999):	Mentioned	8. The Hostile Hospital (2001):	Absent
3. The Wide Window (2000):	Absent	9. The Carnivorous Carnival (2002):	Absent
4. The Miserable Mill (2000):	Absent	10. The Slippery Slope (2003):	Absent
5. The Austere Academy (2000):	Absent	11. The Grim Grotto (2004):	Absent
6. The Ersatz Elevator (2001):	Mentioned	12. The Penultimate Peril (2005):	Absent
13. The End (2006):		Absent
All the Wrong Questions
Who Could That Be at This Hour? (2012):	Absent	Shouldn't You Be in School? (2014):	Absent
When Did You See Her Last? (2013):	Absent	Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? (2015):	Absent
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (2014):		Absent
Snicketverse
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (2002):		Absent
The Dismal Dinner (2004):		Absent
The Beatrice Letters (2006):		Absent
29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy (2014):		Absent
The Hero of the Story (2017):		Absent
Poison for Breakfast (2021):		Absent
Other Snicket Books
The Baby in the Manger (2002):		Absent
The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming (2007):		Absent
The Lump of Coal (2008):		Absent
The Composer Is Dead (2009):		Absent
13 Words (2010):		Absent
The Dark (2013):		Absent
Goldfish Ghost (2017):		Absent

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