Eleanora Poe is the sister (wife in the programme) of Mr. Arthur Poe, who is in charge of the Baudelaire orphans' affairs. Eleanora is one of the journalists and editors working for The Daily Punctilio.
She is first mentioned in Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography. There is a script showing the dialogue from a conversation she had with her brother at The Anxious Clown, a restaurant. Mr. Poe met her to talk with her about the articles printed in her newspaper. Later in the book, a telegram from her to Mr. Poe is shown, which states that her star reporter, Geraldine Julienne, has locked her in the basement, upon request of Esme Squalor; in addition, she has realized that some of the articles she published in the newspaper were not true. Due to an article printed in The Daily Punctilio, stating that it was dangerous for banks to receive telegrams, the telegram is stamped "IGNORED".
In The Penultimate Peril, Lemony Snicket mentions that "a tiresome woman named Eleanora" was in an elevator at the Hotel Preludio with the Baudelaire family one day when Bertrand played a prank that forced her to stop at every floor on the way to her hotel room.
It is implied that Eleanora and Arthur are not part of the V.F.D. organization, because at The Anxious Clown, the waiter uses a code for V.F.D. members, and neither Eleanora nor Arthur seem to understand it or decide to ignore it.
Her name is a reference a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora.