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
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...
Textual Production Cecily Mackworth
Routledge were trying to persuade her to produce this book, very quickly, in late 1946.
Hewett, Christopher, editor. The Living Curve : Letters to W. J. Strachan, 1929-1979. Taranman.
73
Before her journey, in early 1947, she told a friend of her motives: she would have her expenses paid...
Textual Production Cecily Mackworth
The former volume comprises French poems with English translations by practising English poets whom Mackworth felt to have an affinity with the poets translated.
Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet.
45 and n
She uses her own versions of Laforgue ,...
Textual Production Mina Loy
ML also wrote poems about other writers and artists. Several of these poems, including James Joyce 's Ulysses, The Starry Sky of Wyndham Lewis, Nancy Cunard, Brancusi 's Golden Bird, and...
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...
Textual Production Judith Kazantzis
This remarkable anthology brings to a wider audience poems by many otherwise unknown writers, as well as by, for instance, Vera Brittain , Edith Sitwell , Nancy Cunard , Cicely Hamilton , Rose Macaulay ,...
Friends, Associates Anna Kavan
After her relationship with Stuart Edmonds ended, AK developed a large and close circle of friends who doted on her. Her friends were almost exclusively homosexual men, and she developed a reputation for not getting...
Textual Features Aldous Huxley
The title comes from Marlowe : My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay.
Huxley, Aldous. Antic Hay and The Gioconda Smile. Harper.
xvix
Like Crome Yellow, this is a satiric dissection of...
Textual Production Aldous Huxley
AH 's novel Point Counter Point appeared, featuring identifiable portraits of D. H. Lawrence as Rampion, John Middleton Murry as Burlap, and Nancy Cunard as Lucy Tantamount.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
357
Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
278
Watt, Donald, editor. Aldous Huxley: The Critical Heritage. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
147
Friends, Associates Aldous Huxley
Those friends of Aldous whom his wife Maria referred to as the brilliant ones,
Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley. Knopf; Harper & Row.
105
and found intimidatingly intellectual, included T. S. Eliot , Osbert , Edith , and Sacheverell Sitwell , various members...
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.
51: 137
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Nina Hamnett
This book is highly readable: its fast-paced, witty narrative conducted in short sentences with few dates and even less of explanation or embroidery. NH is positively off-hand about such important topics as her early relations...
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

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