Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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.
Later, while Violet was with Pat at Bordighera in Italy in March 1920 (almost immediately after the failed elopement with Vita), Denys was at Monte Carlo with Nancy Cunard
.
Trefusis, Violet. “Introduction”. Violet to Vita, edited by Mitchell A. Leaska, Methuen, pp. 1-52.
38
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton.
54
Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo.
212
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...
Education
Iris Tree
Sometime after 1904, IT
and her next elder sister, Felicity, began attending Miss Wolff
's day school, an unconventional school held at the private home of Miss Wolff at South Audley Street, London. There...
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...
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
while Nancy Cunard
thought her very tense, dominating, and quietly American...
Anthologization
Samuel Beckett
Nancy Cunard
's massive anthology NEGRO, published on 15 February 1934, included nineteen items of poetry and prose translated from French by SB
.
Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press.
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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.
