She was the daughter of Mary Isabella and Thomas Fothergill McNay of Audley Villa, Selhurst Road, South Norwoo.d
She may have been sketched (Mrs or Miss McNay m0868) and painted (Portrait of Miss Nora McNay y348) by Whistler in the early 1880s.
MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 .