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Nancy Price, CBE (3 February 1880 – 31 March 1970), born Lilian Nancy Bache Price in Kinver, Staffordshire, England, was an actress, authoress and manageress of Little Theatre in the Adelphi, a West End theatre on the Strand in London.

Before acting in films, Nancy was an established stage actress. Her roles included India in Elgar's Imperial Masque The Crown of India at the London Coliseum in March 1912.

Nancy was married to the actor Charles Maude until his death in 1943 and together they had a daughter, the actress Joan Maude. In her full and varied career Price appeared in over thirty films and published twenty four books of anecdotes, essays, novels, plays, autobiography and poems.

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Plays

Whiteoaks: A Play (With Mazo de la Roche, Macmillan, 1936)
The Orange Orchard (With Eden Phillpotts, London: Samuel French, 1951)

Poetry

Hurdy-Gurdy (London : Frederick Muller, 1944)

Novels

Ta-mera (London : Hutchinson & Co., 1950)

Essays, memoires and diaries

Behind the Night-Light: the by-world of a child of three. Described by Joan Maude and faithfully recorded by Nancy Price (London : John Murray, 1912)
Vagabond’s Way. Haphazard wanderings on the fells ... With illustrations by A. S. Hartrick (London : John Murray, 1914)
Shadows on the Hills, etc. On the English Lake District. With plates (London : Victor Gollancz, 1935)
The Gull’s Way. An account of a cruise along the East Coast of England (London : Victor Gollancz, 1937)
Nettles and Docks, etc. Essays (London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1940)
Jack by the Hedge, etc. Sketches of country life (London : Frederick Muller, 1942)
I had a Comrade “Buddy” On the author’s dog (London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1944)
Tails and Tales. On dogs (London : Victor Gollancz, 1945)
Where the Skies Unfold, etc. Essays (Birmingham : George Ronald, 1947)
Wonder of Wings. A book about birds (London : Victor Gollancz, 1947)
Acquainted with the Night. A book of dreams (Illustrated by Michael Rothenstein, Oxford : George Ronald, 1949)
Bright Pinions. On parrots (Oxford : George Ronald, 1952)
Feathered Outlaws (London & Worthing : Henry E. Walter, 1953)
In Praise of Trees. An anthology for friends (London : Frederick Muller, 1953)
Into an Hour-Glass. An autobiography (London : Museum Press, 1953)
Pagan’s Progress. High days and holy days (London : Museum Press, 1954)
The Heart of a Vagabond. On country life in Sussex (London : Museum Press, 1955)
I watch and listen. A book mainly concerned with the courtship and song of birds (London : Bodley Head, 1957)
Winged Builders. A book of bird lore, chiefly concerned with the nesting, building and family habits of British birds (London : George Ronald, 1959)
Each in his own way! Personalities I have valued, selected from my album of memories ... Woodcuts by William Wood (London : Frederick Muller, 1960)