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.
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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Publishing Violet Trefusis
The novel was reissued in 1996 by Virago 's Modern Classics, with an introduction by Lisa St Auban de Teran , who devotes much of her introduction to VT 's life experiences and suggests that...
Publishing Laura Riding
Poems: A Joking Word, which had begun under the title Here Beyond, was published in London by Cape (as was Experts Are Puzzled, a book of essays and stories which LR had...
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, 1999, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1.
xxiii, 7
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Reception Samuel Beckett
The competition, for the best poem on Time, was judged by Nancy Cunard and Richard Aldington . Cunard called the winner a long poem, mysterious, obscure in parts, centered around Descartes .
qtd. in
Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press, 1973.
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Reception Samuel Beckett
SB 's first separately published work, the poem Whoroscope, won a ten-pound prize in a competition devised by Nancy Cunard , and was printed in Paris by Cunard's Hours Press .
Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon, 1995.
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Federman, Raymond, and John, 1937 - Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press, 1970.
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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, 1957.
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Like Crome Yellow, this is a satiric dissection of...
Textual Features Edith Sitwell
Wheels was a series in opposition: to the First World War, to the cosiness of the Georgian school of poetry, and to the establishment in general. It drew its revolutionary note from the continued influence...
Textual Features Sylvia Townsend Warner
Her frequent correspondents included musician Paul Nordoff , American artist and illustrator George Plank , and writers Leonard Bacon , Anne Parrish , William Maxwell , Nancy Cunard , and Alyse Gregory .
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1989.
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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 Iris Tree
IT 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...
Textual Production 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/.
BB had produced two novels in homage to Firbank a decade before this. Her study appeared two years after one...
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production Aldous Huxley
AH '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.
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