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
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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 |
Friends, Associates | Iris Tree | Among IT
's close friends were poet, publisher, journalist, and political activist Nancy Cunard
, artist and diarist Dora Carrington
, socialite Sybil Hart-Davis
, and socialite, actress, and memoirist Lady Diana Cooper
. Fielding, Daphne. The Rainbow Picnic. Eyre Methuen. 53 |
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 | Nina Hamnett | She took up old friendships, making visits out of wartime London to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska
in Gloucestershire and Roger Fry
at Guildford (where Lady Strachey
led the party in evening literary games). She breakfasted regularly with... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | Around the same period she began friendships with, among others, Edith
, Osbert
, and Sacheverell Sitwell
, Rebecca West
, and Nancy Cunard
. She writes in her memoir of the scintilliating Sitwell triumverate... |
Friends, Associates | Nina Hamnett | In Paris NH
quickly re-acquainted herself with old friends and met new ones, re-establishing her presence at the popular cafés. She re-connected with Marie Wassilieff
, Zadkine
, Brancusi
, Aleister Crowley
, and others... |
Friends, Associates | H. D. | In the 1920s, while HD and Bryher
were living rootlessly, sometimes in London, sometimes in Europe, HD's list of acquaintances grew to include Gertrude Stein
, Alice B. Toklas
, Ernest Hemingway
, James Joyce |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Richardson | The Montparnasse group with whom they visited included Ernest
and Hadley Hemingway
, Sylvia Beach
, Mary Butts
, Nancy Cunard
, Cecil Maitland
, Mina Loy
, and Nina Hamnett
. Richardson was disappointed... |
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 Maxwell, Chatto and Windus, 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, p. various pages. 2 |
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 |
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... |
Occupation | Alice Walker | The company was housed on the estate in Mendocino County which Walker bought out of her earnings from The Color Purple. Its first book appeared during this same month, its last in 1988. The... |
politics | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Warner and Ackland were members of publisher Victor Gollancz
's Left Book Club
, and wrote assiduously for left-wing papers and magazines. (After the second world war, however, Ackland developed divergent and comparatively right-wing views.)... |
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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