Nancy Clara Cunard (10 March 1896 – 17 March 1965) was a British writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class, and...
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who told but didn't kiss". In 1911, leaving Cunard in Leicestershire, Lady Cunard moved to London with Nancy. The biographer Alan Jefferson writes, "Soon...
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Cunard, 1st Baronet (21 November 1787 – 28 April 1865), was a British-Canadian shipping magnate, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard...
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Barney, Sylvia Beach, Erik Satie, Kay Boyle, Bryher, Caresse Crosby, Nancy Cunard, H.D., Janet Flanner, Jane Heap, Maria Jolas, Mina Loy, Henry Miller...
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surrealists Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris, and political activist Nancy Cunard. The During 1920–1930s Paris, negrophilia was a craze to collect African...
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baronet. The third baronet married Maud Burke, by whom he had one child, Nancy Cunard, and was succeeded in the title at his death in 1925 by his younger brother...
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during the Second World War up until 1 April. It was through Crowley that Nancy Cunard resided in a flat in Jermyn Street. New Zealand chefs and entertainers...
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managing director of Barings Bank and war poet; Julian & Billy Grenfell, Nancy Cunard and her friend Iris Tree; Edward Horner and Sir Denis Anson. Also included...
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Paris in the 1920s for the Consolidated Press Association. Taken over by Nancy Cunard in 1928, it became the Hours Press, and continued its association with...
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Huxley knew personally, such as D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murry, and Huxley is depicted as the novel's novelist...
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and 20th (and now 21st) centuries. The Cunard shipping family owned the estate from 1876 to 1912 and Nancy Cunard (1896–1965), writer, anti-racism and anti-fascism...
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two prominent authors and activists, Nancy Cunard and the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Tzara had also signed Cunard's June 1937 call to intervention against...
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careers ahead of them,[citation needed] but included both Nancy Cunard and Aldous Huxley. Nancy Cunard, Arnold James, V. T. Perowne, Helen Rootham, Edith Sitwell...
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March 20, 1920. McCown, Eugene, Portrait of Nancy Cunard, 1923, oil on board, 99.1 x 66 cm, in Cunard, Nancy, These Were The Hours, Memories of my Hours...
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American actress Nancy Cunard (1896–1965), English writer, editor, and publisher Samuel Cunard (1787–1865), British shipping magnate Joseph Cunard Barberie,...
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May Wong but also modernist literary figures like Edith Sitwell and Nancy Cunard. Lillie Langtry Lily Elsie Gaby Deslys Gina Palerme Mary Curzon, Lady...
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Maud, Lady Cunard. Moore took a special interest in the education of Maud's daughter, the well-known publisher and art patron, Nancy Cunard. It has been...
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heiress Nancy Cunard. They met in 1928 in Venice, where the Alabamians had an extended engagement to play, a residency at the Hotel Luna. Cunard’s 1934 anthology...
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book: How Britain Rules Africa. With the help of former American heiress Nancy Cunard, he found a London agent and, eventually, a publisher (Wishart). It published...
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Montblanc on a line of jewellery called Les Aimants and inspired by Nancy Cunard. In 2015, Casiraghi founded Les Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco (literally...
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revolutionary discipline. It should be read as a warning." Anti-fascist poet Nancy Cunard later wrote that the book was riddled with "perfidious inaccuracies"...
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French translation by Beckett and others) (1931) Negro: an Anthology (Nancy Cunard, editor) (1934) Anthology of Mexican Poems (Octavio Paz, editor) (1958)...
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sold at auction. In May 2018, La Jeune Fille Sophistiquée (Portrait de Nancy Cunard), a polished bronze on a carved marble base (1932), sold for US$71 million...
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that there were no more revolutionaries within it. He told anthologist Nancy Cunard that she should "not expect to find anything revolutionary or critical...
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Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. The electric body: Nancy Cunard sees Josephine Baker (2003) – review essay of dance style and contemporary...
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managing director of Barings Bank and war poet; Julian & Billy Grenfell, Nancy Cunard and her friend Iris Tree. In the 1920s ("The Roaring Twenties"), the...
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to Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire, where he was visited by the poet Nancy Cunard, before relocating to Hastings in Sussex, where he took up residence...
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Nancy is an English language given name for women. The name Nancy was originally a diminutive form of Annis, a medieval English vernacular form of Agnes...
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Tate Britain. She was often photographed by Man Ray, was friends with Nancy Cunard for a time, and acted alongside Diana Cooper in the mid-1920s. Iris studied...
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appeasement; connections with MI5 Sir Stafford Cripps, Labour politician Nancy Cunard, writer, heiress and anti-fascist Frederick Francis Charles Curtis, architect...
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