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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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 | 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 | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Among the many literary figures personally known to STW
were Theodore Francis Powys
and his wife Violet
(the friends who introduced her to the poet Valentine Ackland
) and novelist Nancy Cunard
. Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Introduction”. Letters: Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited by William Maxwell, Chatto and Windus, p. vii - xvii. xiii-xiv Warner, Sylvia Townsend, and David Garnett. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sylvia and David: The Townsend Warner / Garnett Letters, edited by Richard Garnett, Sinclair-Stevenson, p. various pages. 2 |
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 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Wickham | AW
frequented popular Bohemian hangouts such as the Café Royal and, later, the Fitzroy Tavern. Wickham, Anna. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett, Chatto and Windus, pp. 7-11. 9-10 Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, pp. 1-48. 26 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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. 87-8 |
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