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.
Black and white photograph of Nancy Cunard. She is seated in a casual pose with elbows out, facing the camera, wearing a belted leather jacket, what looks like a cloche hat, and her trademark stack of African ivory bangles.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Sylvia Townsend Warner
Her frequent correspondents included musician Paul Nordoff , American artist and illustrator George Plank , and writers Leonard Bacon , Anne Parrish , William Maxwell , Nancy Cunard , and Alyse Gregory .
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus.
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Textual Features Edith Sitwell
Wheels was a series in opposition: to the First World War, to the cosiness of the Georgian school of poetry, and to the establishment in general. It drew its revolutionary note from the continued influence...
Reception Samuel Beckett
SB 's first separately published work, the poem Whoroscope, won a ten-pound prize in a competition devised by Nancy Cunard , and was printed in Paris by Cunard's Hours Press .
Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon.
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Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press.
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Reception Samuel Beckett
The competition, for the best poem on Time, was judged by Nancy Cunard and Richard Aldington . Cunard called the winner a long poem, mysterious, obscure in parts, centered around Descartes .
Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press.
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Publishing Violet Trefusis
The novel was reissued in 1996 by Virago 's Modern Classics, with an introduction by Lisa St Auban de Teran , who devotes much of her introduction to VT 's life experiences and suggests that...
Publishing Ezra Pound
Nancy Cunard 's Hours Press in Paris published EP 's A Draft of XXX Cantos.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Publishing Laura Riding
Poems: A Joking Word, which had begun under the title Here Beyond, was published in London by Cape (as was Experts Are Puzzled, a book of essays and stories which LR had...
politics Sylvia Townsend Warner
Responding to an article written by Nancy Cunard in the Daily Worker and the News Chronicle, STW and Valentine Ackland travelled to Barcelona as first-aid volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.
Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora.
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politics Sylvia Townsend Warner
Warner and Ackland were members of publisher Victor Gollancz 's Left Book Club , and wrote assiduously for left-wing papers and magazines. (After the second world war, however, Ackland developed divergent and comparatively right-wing views.)...
politics Valentine Ackland
VA and Warner were involved in the Spanish Civil War from its outset. They travelled to Barcelona as first-aid volunteers in late September 1936 in response to an article written by Nancy Cunard in the...
politics Virginia Woolf
On 10 May Germany had invaded Holland and Belgium. In the event of an invasion of England, they could indeed expect a terrible personal fate, on account of their anti-war politics, Leonard's anti-war career and...
Occupation Alice Walker
The company was housed on the estate in Mendocino County which Walker bought out of her earnings from The Color Purple. Its first book appeared during this same month, its last in 1988. The...
Intertextuality and Influence Cecily Mackworth
When Nancy Cunard first met CM , she introduced her to someone else with this is Cecily. She has written the most beautiful poem for my volume of "Poems for France". When Mackworth...
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 Nina Hamnett
In Paris NH quickly re-acquainted herself with old friends and met new ones, re-establishing her presence at the popular cafés. She re-connected with Marie Wassilieff , Zadkine , Brancusi , Aleister Crowley , and others...

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