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Who is Nancy Cunard?

I believe Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) was George Moore’s biological daughter rather than a blood relation of her mother’s husband Sir Bache Cunard. Rather than hedge or equivocate, I have placed Nancy among Moore family members where I think she belongs. This is why:

1. Her mother loved George, probably didn’t love Bache.
2. Her mother conceived Nancy during an intimate affair with George.
3. Nancy seemed to resemble George more than Bache.
4. Nancy was a fierce “rebel producer” like George, unlike Bache.
5. Nancy was passionate about modern art like George, unlike Bache.
6. Nancy was progressive an iconoclastic like George, unlike Bache.
7. Nancy scorned the trappings of wealth like George, unlike Bache.
8. Nancy became estranged from Bache and her mother, but not George.
9. George’s love of Nancy was unremitting, unlike his feelings for any woman other than her mother.

When I shared my opinion with my friend Sir Rupert Hart-Davis who knew Nancy well, he said I was incorrect; moreover he said that Nancy herself did not believe she was fathered by George Moore. That is also the consensus among scholars who have considered the subject. I have not fact-checked their reasons.

For now at least on this website, Nancy is in the Moore family tree. Yet all pages of George Moore Interactive, including this one, encourage visitors to “Leave a Comment” so they can easily and directly share evidence or opinions different from mine.

When I am convinced by something more persuasive than my eyes and intuition, I will promptly move Nancy out of the family tree, into the Friends and Associates pages of the Iconography.