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.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Aldous Huxley | Those friends of Aldous whom his wife Maria referred to as the brilliant ones, Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley. Knopf; Harper & Row. 105 |
Textual Features | Aldous Huxley | The title comes from Marlowe
: My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay. Huxley, Aldous. Antic Hay and The Gioconda Smile. Harper. xvix |
Friends, Associates | Anna Kavan | 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... |
Textual Production | Judith Kazantzis | This remarkable anthology brings to a wider audience poems by many otherwise unknown writers, as well as by, for instance, Vera Brittain
, Edith Sitwell
, Nancy Cunard
, Cicely Hamilton
, Rose Macaulay
,... |
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... |
Textual Production | Mina Loy | ML
also wrote poems about other writers and artists. Several of these poems, including James Joyce
's Ulysses, The Starry Sky of Wyndham Lewis, Nancy Cunard, Brancusi
's Golden Bird, and... |
Friends, Associates | Cecily Mackworth | Working with the Free French, CM
got to know as a colleague André Dewavrin (code-named Colonel Passy
, in a system of using as noms de guerre the names of Paris Metro stations), who directed... |
Friends, Associates | Cecily Mackworth | Her literary circle in Paris was highly eclectic: the many camps in which she had friends included the Surrealist rump, the incoming Existentialists, and the Communists (who were mostly ex-Surrealists). Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet. 60-1 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Cecily Mackworth | When Nancy Cunard
first met CM
, she introduced her to someone else with this is Cecily. She has written the most beautiful poem for my volume of "Poems for France". When Mackworth... |
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 |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Una Marson | While working for Selassie
, UM
met the writer and racial activist Nancy Cunard
, who was in Geneva as a reporter for the American Associated Negro Press
. Later her BBC work enabled her... |
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... |
Publishing | Ezra Pound | Nancy Cunard
's Hours Press
in Paris published EP
's A Draft of XXX Cantos. Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1. xxiii, 7 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
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