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
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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.
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, 1984.
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Before her journey, in early 1947, she told a friend of her motives: she would have her expenses paid...
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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, 1987.
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1966, began with limited editions of books by admired authors, and moved on to works, especially poetry, by largely unpublished writers, including...
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Iris Tree
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was writing poetry by the age of ten, exchanging original verses with Nancy Cunard
, who went to day-school with her. By twelve she was impressing future Prime Minister Asquith
, who had read...
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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/.
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had produced two novels in homage to Firbank a decade before this. Her study appeared two years after one...
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Iris Tree
Sitwell included five poems by Tree in the first cycle, eight in the second, and nine in each of the third and fourth cycles. The anthology, which extended to six cycles in all, also included...
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Aldous Huxley
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's novel Point Counter Point appeared, featuring identifiable portraits of D. H. Lawrence
as Rampion, John Middleton Murry
as Burlap, and Nancy Cunard
as Lucy Tantamount.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996.
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Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1987.
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Watt, Donald, editor. Aldous Huxley: The Critical Heritage. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975.
This book is highly readable: its fast-paced, witty narrative conducted in short sentences with few dates and even less of explanation or embroidery. NH
is positively off-hand about such important topics as her early relations...
