Southern novelist whose unpublished feminist epic is said to be "unspeakable." Moved north to Dreary in 1924 with her young daughter Poppy, because she found the town to be more "hospitable" than anything in her native Mississippi. Which does not say much for Dreary's hospitality.
As part of the Ice House gang, Poppy has had some hair-raising experiences, but Nancy dismisses them as imaginative nonsense, something that she believes Poppy inherited from her.
Perceived by most as obscene, unreadable, or worse, Nancee’s ponderous novel is said to contain sentences that no one can repeat aloud without choking. On a quarterly basis, she reads passages at the Mortimer Hask Grave Memorial Library to a dwindling audience of masochists, moths and chair creaks. Rumor holds the book is unfinished because she keeps adding new characters and material. In 1945, she led the committee to launch the Dreary Arts Festival.
