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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Textual Production Brigid Brophy
She copied the practice of Firbank himself by using violet ink to write this book.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
BB had produced two novels in homage to Firbank a decade before this. Her study appeared two years after one...
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 Iris Tree
IT was writing poetry by the age of ten, exchanging original verses with Nancy Cunard , who went to day-school with her. By twelve she was impressing future Prime Minister Asquith , who had read...
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 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...
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1966, began with limited editions of books by admired authors, and moved on to works, especially poetry, by largely unpublished writers, including...
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 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.
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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
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...

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