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...
Family and Intimate relationships
John Oliver Hobbes
One of her most notable personal and professional relationships was with the novelist George Moore
. The pair met in 1893, and Moore appears to have fallen in love with the then-still-married Hobbes. A break...
Family and Intimate relationships
Iris Tree
Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was IT
's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote...
death
John Oliver Hobbes
She had left her parents' home on the Isle of Wight the day before, having spent three energetic days there, and her father later wrote that on leaving she gave no indication of illness or...
