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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Textual Production Amabel Williams-Ellis
Contributors included Nancy Cunard , Winifred Holtby , Storm Jameson , Pamela Hansford Johnson , Naomi Mitchison , Sylvia Townsend Warner , W. H. Auden , John Lehmann , and John Strachey .
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 ,...
Textual Production Carol Rumens
Since this year, 2007, CR has been picking a Poem of the Week for the Guardian newspaper, which prints the poem along with her commentary and analysis. Rumens like to pay attention to context and...
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...
Textual Production W. H. Auden
An earlier, private edition of Poems was hand printed by Stephen Spender in 1928, in an edition of probably fewer than 45 copies.
Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press, 1968.
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A second edition appeared in 1932, and two years later a...
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, 1984.
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Before her journey, in early 1947, she told a friend of her motives: she would have her expenses paid...
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...
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, 1987.
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She uses her own versions of Laforgue ,...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Nina Hamnett
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...

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