Nancy Cunard

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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.

Milestones

10 March 1896
NC was born at the great house of Nevill Holt in Leicestershire, the only child of her parents.
Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf, 1979.
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1915
NC published a poem for the first time, in the Eton College Chronicle.
Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf, 1979.
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Spring 1933
With a large manuscript and a mass of pictures, NC went to London to look for a publisher for her anthology on black politics.
15 February 1934
A thousand copies of NC 's anthology NEGRO appeared. She sent copies to all contributors, to the press, and to interested libraries in England and the United States.
Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf, 1979.
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16 March 1965
NC died in Paris in l'Hôpital Cochin , alone under an oxygen tent in a public ward.
Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf, 1979.
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Biography

Birth and Family

10 March 1896
NC was born at the great house of Nevill Holt in Leicestershire, the only child of her parents.
Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf, 1979.
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