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
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...
Friends, Associates Lilian Bowes Lyon
Her friends included writers Laurens van der Post and William Plomer (who was also a reader for her publisher, Jonathan Cape ). They also included her housekeeper, Ellen Beckwith (with whom she put herself on...
Friends, Associates Samuel Beckett
Among SB 's various friendships made in Paris, that with James Joyce was the most formative. He was lucky not to lose his friendship with Nancy Cunard when she tried to pin him down over...
Reception Samuel Beckett
The competition, for the best poem on Time, was judged by Nancy Cunard and Richard Aldington . Cunard called the winner a long poem, mysterious, obscure in parts, centered around Descartes .
Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press.
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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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Reception Samuel Beckett
SB 's first separately published work, the poem Whoroscope, won a ten-pound prize in a competition devised by Nancy Cunard , and was printed in Paris by Cunard's Hours Press .
Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon.
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Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press.
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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.
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In fact, however, the upper-class society to which she now made approaches through a new...
Textual Production W. H. Auden
An earlier, private edition of Poems was hand printed by Stephen Spender in 1928, in an edition of probably fewer than 45 copies.
Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press.
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A second edition appeared in 1932, and two years later a...
politics Valentine Ackland
VA and Warner were involved in the Spanish Civil War from its outset. They travelled to Barcelona as first-aid volunteers in late September 1936 in response to an article written by Nancy Cunard in the...

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