Maud Alice Lady Cunard

NC 's mother died of cancer of the throat; Nancy neither went to her dying mother's bedside nor attended her funeral.

NC 's mother, Maud Alice (Burke) Cunard (Emerald), was born in San Francisco in 1872, to a wealthy father of Irish descent and a half-French mother. She was largely self-taught, and had a...

NC was also the exemplary subject for painters and photographers—Nina Hamnett (who did a drawing of her for ten guineas at the request of Lady Cunard ),John Banting , Eugene MacCown ,...

The themes explored in the pamphlet were presaged in an article NC had written for the leftist journal Crisis in September 1931. She titled the article Does Anyone Know Any Negroes? after a comment made...