Mary Lillian Burke (1879-1952) was an American artist, artisan, occupational therapist and entrepreneur from New York. A close friend of the Bell-Grosvenor-Fairchild families she was encouraged by Marian Fairchild--Mabel Hubbard and Alexander Graham Bell's youngest daughter--to further the work of Mabel Hubbard Bell's Cape Breton Home Industries during the tough years of the Great Depression. Lillian Burke's work in Baddeck, ChÔeticamp, Boston and New York was part of the wider influence of Mabel Hubbard and Alexander Graham Bell, and a consequence of the benevolent interest he, his wife and two daughters took in the well-being of the people of Cape Breton Island. Lillian Burke occupied a studio in both Cape Breton and Manhattan and spent the summer months each year as a guest of the Grosvenor-Fairchilds at Beinn Bhreagh, the Bell estate in Baddeck.