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Nancy Cunard: A Biography

She symbolized the twenties and scandalized the thirties; like a shooting star, she was beautiful, rebellious — and doomed.

By all accounts Nancy Cunard was a bewitching woman.

The only child of an American society hostess and an English baronet, she became the darling of high-cafe society in the twenties and thirties. She had an insatiable lust for life and lovers; her private affairs became public scandals. She knew TS Eliot, James Joyce, and Louis Aragon; she sat for Cecil Beaton, and Max Beerbohm sketched her; she was an Aldous Huxley heroine in Antic Hay. A poet and a writer, she was the avant-garde publisher who "discovered" Samuel Beckett. She was a passionate advocate of racial equality and a journalist in the Spanish Civil War. By the time of her tragic death in 1965 Nancy Cunard had become the dazzling symbol of her age.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 480
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-14-005572-6
  • EAN
  • 9780140055726
  • Genres
  • biography, history
  • Release date
  • 1981