* Born into the Cunard shipping fortune, Nancy rebelled, spending her life fighting racism and fascism* Rebellion included romantic emancipation: affairs with writers and artists: Huxley, Tzara, Pound* Poems in experimental free verse and popular balladic forms* Founder of The Hours press, editor of Negro: An Anthology* Sandeep Parmar (University of Liverpool) featured Cunard on Radio 3's Free Thinking
Nancy Clara Cunard (10 March 1896 - 17 March 1965) was a writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class and devoted much of her life to fighting racism and fascism. She became a muse to some of the 20th century's most distinguished writers and artists, including Aldous Huxley and Ezra Pound, who were among her lovers. She suffered from mental illness in later life and died aged 69 in the Hopital Cochin, Paris.Sandeep Parmar received her PhD from University College London. She has written extensively on the unpublished autobiographies of the modernist poet Mina Loy. She also edited Paris by Hope Mirrlees (Carcanet) and published a poetry collection, The Marble Orchard.
'One of the major phenomena of history.' - William Carlos Williams on Nancy Cunard
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