Nancy Cunard
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Standard Name: Cunard, Nancy
Birth Name: Nancy Cunard
NC
was an early twentieth-century modernist poet, journalist, anthologist, biographer, and political activist whose life and literary career were closely intertwined. She was significant as a publisher as well as in these other roles.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Samuel Beckett | Nancy Cunard
's massive anthology NEGRO, published on 15 February 1934, included nineteen items of poetry and prose translated from French by SB
. Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press, 1970. 94-5 |
Anthologization | Zora Neale Hurston | ZNH
was invited to contribute to Nancy Cunard
's landmark anthology Negro: An Anthology (1934). Six of Hurston's essays were included. Harris, Trudier, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 51. Gale Research, 1987. 51: 137 |
Cultural formation | Laura Riding | As an American living in England in 1928 she was said by an American friend, Polly Antell
, to have become very English, Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005. 113 |
Education | Iris Tree | Sometime after 1904, IT
and her next elder sister, Felicity, began attending Miss Wolff
's day school, an unconventional school held at the private home of Miss Wolff at South Audley Street, London. There... |
Education | Vita Sackville-West | At thirteen VSW
began attending a small day school run by Helen Wolff
(whose name is variously spelled in various sources) in South Audley Street, off Park Lane. The staff were mostly male. Vita... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Later, while Violet was with Pat at Bordighera in Italy in March 1920 (almost immediately after the failed elopement with Vita), Denys was at Monte Carlo with Nancy Cunard
. Trefusis, Violet. “Introduction”. Violet to Vita, edited by Mitchell A. Leaska, Methuen, 1989, pp. 1 - 52. 38 Jullian, Philippe, John Nova Phillips, Violet Trefusis, and Vita Sackville-West. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976. 54 Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 212 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Wyndham Lewis | WL
's problematic views on women surface in his writing and his life. He had numerous affairs with women (including writer Nancy Cunard
), and these liaisons produced several illegitimate children, all of whom he... |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Beckett | Among SB
's various friendships made in Paris, that with James Joyce
was the most formative. He was lucky not to lose his friendship with Nancy Cunard
when she tried to pin him down over... |
Friends, Associates | Cecily Mackworth | Working with the Free French, CM
got to know as a colleague André Dewavrin (code-named Colonel Passy
, in a system of using as noms de guerre the names of Paris Metro stations), who directed... |
Friends, Associates | Gertrude Stein | |
Friends, Associates | Cecily Mackworth | Her literary circle in Paris was highly eclectic: the many camps in which she had friends included the Surrealist rump, the incoming Existentialists, and the Communists (who were mostly ex-Surrealists). Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet, 1987. 60-1 |
Friends, Associates | Iris Tree | Among IT
's close friends were poet, publisher, journalist, and political activist Nancy Cunard
, artist and diarist Dora Carrington
, socialite Sybil Hart-Davis
, and socialite, actress, and memoirist Lady Diana Cooper
. Fielding, Daphne. The Rainbow Picnic. Eyre Methuen, 1974. 53 |
Friends, Associates | Lilian Bowes Lyon | Her friends included writers Laurens van der Post
and William Plomer
(who was also a reader for her publisher, Jonathan Cape
). They also included her housekeeper, Ellen Beckwith
(with whom she put herself on... |
Friends, Associates | Nina Hamnett | She took up old friendships, making visits out of wartime London to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska
in Gloucestershire and Roger Fry
at Guildford (where Lady Strachey
led the party in evening literary games). She breakfasted regularly with... |
Friends, Associates | Una Marson | While working for Selassie
, UM
met the writer and racial activist Nancy Cunard
, who was in Geneva as a reporter for the American Associated Negro Press
. Later her BBC work enabled her... |
Timeline
1787
The world's leading iron works opened at the coal-mining centre of Blaenavon in South Wales; it had the longest extant tunnel and connected to the most extensive canal system.
1840
The British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
(later the Cunard Steamship Company
) began its regular transatlantic steamer service.
1856
The Cunard Company
's iron steamship the Persia crossed the Atlantic at an average speed of 13.49 knots, establishing itself as the fastest vessel in the world.
1 January 1916
The British edition of Vogue (an American fashion magazine) began publishing from Condé Nast
in Hanover Square, London.
April 1931
Nine black youths were tried in Scottsboro, Alabama, for allegedly raping two white women three weeks before; the death sentences passed on them were overturned by the US Supreme Court
the following year.
18 July 1936
The Spanish Civil War began between the Republicans (including Communists) and the Fascists led by Francisco Franco
.
September 1966
Cecil Woolf
and John Bagguley
presented a questionnaire to writers on the model of Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War, by Nancy Cunard
and others (November 1937). They published the results in Authors...