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.
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, 1987.
51: 137
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, 1937 - Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press, 1970.
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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,
qtd. in
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005.
113
while Nancy Cunard
thought her very tense, dominating, and quietly American...
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...
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...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Violet Trefusis
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, 1989, pp. 1-52.
38
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976.
54
Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997.
It was John Lane
and Roger Fry
who introduced them to the Bloomsbury circle. The trip did not result in a publishing contract, as GS
had hoped, but it did advance her reputation. The next...
Friends, Associates
Aldous Huxley
Those friends of Aldous whom his wife Maria referred to as the brilliant ones,
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, 1983.
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, 1971, 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, 1984, pp. 1-48.
26
According to her friend David Garnett
, she preferred the hard-up to the well-off, the doomed and...
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, 1908 - 2000 Maxwell, Chatto and Windus, 1982, 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, 1994, p. various pages.
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Timeline
1787: The world's leading iron works opened at...
Building item
1787
The world's leading iron works opened at the coal-mining centre of Blaenavon in South Wales; it had the longest extant tunnel and connected to the most extensive canal system.
Bruxelles, Simon de. “Church bells ring for a proud Welsh town”. Edmonton Journal, 1 Dec. 2000, p. A3.
A3
1840: The British and North American Royal Mail...
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
92
Kemp, Peter, editor. Encyclopedia of Ships and Seafaring. Stanford Maritime, 1980.
216
1856: The Cunard Company's iron steamship the Persia...
Building item
1856
The Cunard Company
's iron steamship the Persia crossed the Atlantic at an average speed of 13.49 knots, establishing itself as the fastest vessel in the world.
Roche, Thomas William Edgar. Samuel Cunard and the North Atlantic. MacDonald, 1971.
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1 January 1916: The British edition of Vogue (an American...
Building item
1 January 1916
The British edition of Vogue (an American fashion magazine) began publishing from Condé Nast
in Hanover Square, London.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Spawls, Alice. “Does one flare or cling?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 9, 5 May 2016, pp. 40-2.
April 1931: Nine black youths were tried in Scottsboro,...
Building item
April 1931
Nine black youths were tried in Scottsboro, Alabama, for allegedly raping two white women three weeks before; the death sentences passed on them were overturned by the US Supreme Court
the following year.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
18 July 1936: The Spanish Civil War began between the Republicans...
National or international item
18 July 1936
The Spanish Civil War began between the Republicans (including Communists) and the Fascists led by Francisco Franco
.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
228
September 1966: Cecil Woolf and John Bagguley presented a...
Building item
September 1966
Cecil Woolf
and John Bagguley
presented a questionnaire to writers on the model of Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War, by Nancy Cunard
and others (November 1937). They published the results in Authors...
Texts
Cunard, Nancy, editor. Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War. Left Review, 1937.
Cunard, Nancy. Black Man and White Ladyship. Privately printed, 1931.
Cunard, Nancy, and Pablo Neruda. Cinq Poèmes : les poétes du monde défendent le peuple espagnol. Hours Press, 1937.
Cunard, Nancy, and Henry Crowder. “Equitorial Way; Memory Blues”. Henry-Music, Hours Press, 1930.
Cunard, Nancy. Essays on Race and Empire. Editor Moynagh, Maureen, Broadview, 2002.
Cunard, Nancy. GM: Memories of George Moore. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956.
Cunard, Nancy. Grand Man. Secker and Warburg, 1954.
Cunard, Nancy. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Sandeep Parmar, Carcanet, 2016, p. xi - xli.
Cunard, Nancy. NEGRO. Published by Nancy Cunard at Wishart, 1934.
Cunard, Nancy. Nous gens d’Espagne, 1945-1949. Imprint Labau, 1949.
Cunard, Nancy. Outlaws. Elkin Mathews, 1921.
Cunard, Nancy. Parallax. Hogarth Press, 1925.
Cunard, Nancy. Poems (two) 1925. Aquila, 1930.
Cunard, Nancy, editor. Poems for France. La France Libre, 1944.
Cunard, Nancy. Relève into Maquis. Grasshopper, 1944.
