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
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Friends, Associates | Enid Bagnold | Her biographer says that at Shooters Hill EBturned . . . from [her] artistic friends to society friends. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 46 |
Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | Beginning her editorship of Wheels, ES
made other friendships, including those with Nancy Cunard
, Nina Hamnett
(whom she describes as generous and courageous), Walter Sickert
(whose generosity and sense of fun she celebrates),... |
Friends, Associates | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE
's friends and associates included Edith Sitwell
, whose poems she often published in The Spectator; Storm Jameson
, a political mentor Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 128 |
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 | Gertrude Stein | |
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 | 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. 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. 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... |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | Around the same period she began friendships with, among others, Edith
, Osbert
, and Sacheverell Sitwell
, Rebecca West
, and Nancy Cunard
. She writes in her memoir of the scintilliating Sitwell triumverate... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | H. D. | In the 1920s, while HD and Bryher
were living rootlessly, sometimes in London, sometimes in Europe, HD's list of acquaintances grew to include Gertrude Stein
, Alice B. Toklas
, Ernest Hemingway
, James Joyce |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Richardson | The Montparnasse group with whom they visited included Ernest
and Hadley Hemingway
, Sylvia Beach
, Mary Butts
, Nancy Cunard
, Cecil Maitland
, Mina Loy
, and Nina Hamnett
. Richardson was disappointed... |
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