LEADER 05208nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910778157903321 005 20210527023000.0 010 $a1-280-66573-4 010 $a9786613642660 010 $a0-231-51137-X 024 7 $a10.7312/gord13938 035 $a(CKB)1000000000475556 035 $a(EBL)908554 035 $a(OCoLC)826476361 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000207841 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12028180 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000207841 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10254511 035 $a(PQKB)11295677 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908554 035 $a(DE-B1597)458901 035 $a(OCoLC)1013943043 035 $a(OCoLC)1029835558 035 $a(OCoLC)1032692157 035 $a(OCoLC)1037972410 035 $a(OCoLC)1041977289 035 $a(OCoLC)1046603546 035 $a(OCoLC)1047009169 035 $a(OCoLC)1049618692 035 $a(OCoLC)1054873591 035 $a(OCoLC)979909872 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231511377 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908554 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10177996 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL364266 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000475556 100 $a20060816d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNancy Cunard$b[electronic resource] $eheiress, muse, political idealist /$fLois Gordon 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (498 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-231-13938-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [377]-426) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Golden Girl --$t2. Coming of Age During a Revolution in the Arts --$t3. Counterpoint of War in London --$t4. Postwar Breakdown --$t5. Return to the World in Paris --$t6. Reluctant Icon --$t7. Nancy as Publisher --$t8. Prelude to Negro --$t9. Negro --$t10. Nancy as Journalist: Scottsboro, Ethiopia, Spain --$t11. On the Front Lines in the Spanish Civil War --$t12. Exposing the Concentration Camps After Franco's Victory --$t13. Exile and Resistance in World War II --$t14. Surviving Réanville --$t15. Escaping La Mothe --$t16. The Last Great Glare --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aLois Gordon's absorbing biography tells the story of a writer, activist, and cultural icon who embodied the dazzling energy and tumultuous spirit of her age, and whom William Carlos Williams once called "one of the major phenomena of history." Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) led a life that surpasses Hollywood fantasy. The only child of an English baronet (and heir to the Cunard shipping fortune) and an American beauty, Cunard abandoned the world of a celebrated socialite and Jazz Age icon to pursue a lifelong battle against social injustice as a wartime journalist, humanitarian aid worker, and civil rights champion. Cunard fought fascism on the battlefields of Spain and reported firsthand on the atrocities of the French concentration camps. Intelligent and beautiful, she romanced the great writers of her era, including three Nobel Prize winners, and was the inspiration for characters in the works of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Pablo Neruda, Samuel Beckett, and Ernest Hemingway, among others. Cunard was also a prolific poet, publisher, and translator and, after falling in love with a black American jazz pianist, became deeply committed to fighting for black rights. She edited the controversial anthology Negro, the first comprehensive study of the achievement and plight of blacks around the world. Her contributors included Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Zora Neale Hurston, among scores of others. Cunard's personal life was as complex as her public persona. Her involvement with the civil rights movement led her to be ridiculed and rejected by both family and friends. Throughout her life, she was plagued by insecurities and suffered a series of breakdowns, struggling with a sense of guilt over her promiscuous behavior and her ability to survive so much war and tragedy. Yet Cunard's writings also reveal an immense kindness and wit, as well as her renowned, often flamboyant defiance of prejudiced social conventions. Drawing on diaries, correspondence, historical accounts, and the remembrances of others, Lois Gordon revisits the major movements of the first half of the twentieth century through the life of a truly gifted and extraordinary woman. She also returns Nancy Cunard to her rightful place as a major figure in the historical, social, and artistic events of a critical era. 606 $aAuthors, English$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aWomen political activists$zEngland$vBiography 606 $aWomen journalists$zEngland$vBiography 615 0$aAuthors, English 615 0$aWomen political activists 615 0$aWomen journalists 676 $a821/.912 676 $aB 700 $aGordon$b Lois G$0680405 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778157903321 996 $aNancy Cunard$93836827 997 $aUNINA