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.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Iris Tree | Sitwell included five poems by Tree in the first cycle, eight in the second, and nine in each of the third and fourth cycles. The anthology, which extended to six cycles in all, also included... |
Friends, Associates | Gertrude Stein | |
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... |
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),... |
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... |
Textual Production | Carol Rumens | Since this year, 2007, CR
has been picking a Poem of the Week for the Guardian newspaper, which prints the poem along with her commentary and analysis. Rumens like to pay attention to context and... |
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. 113 |
Publishing | Laura Riding | |
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... |
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. xxiii, 7 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Textual Production | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
remained editor of this weekly for the next twenty years. Her efforts were part of her strong commitment to fighting totalitarianism wherever and whenever it appeared. This periodical reached forty thousand readers and was... |
Textual Production | Kathleen Nott | The Hand and Flower Press
, run by Marx from 1940 until 1966, began with limited editions of books by admired authors, and moved on to works, especially poetry, by largely unpublished writers, including... |
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 | 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 |
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