Lois Gordon
NANCY CUNARD
Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist
Columbia
University
Press •
New York Contents
List of Illustrations ix Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
1 Golden Girl 1
2 Coming of Age During a Revolution in the Arts 20
3 Counterpoint of War in London 51
4 Postwar Breakdown 71
5 Return to the World in Paris 90
6 Reluctant Icon 125
7 Nancy as Publisher 140
8 Prelude to Negro 156 9 Negro 181
10 Nancy as Journalist: Scottsboro, Ethiopia, Spain 196
11 On the Front Lines in the Spanish Civil War 220 12 Exposing the Concentration Camps After Franco's Victory 13 Exile and Resistance in World War II 269
14 Surviving Reanville 300
15 Escaping La Mothe 322
16 The Last Great Glare 343
Epilogue 372
Notes 377
Index 429 Illustrations
Following page 70 1. Nancy, holding Buster
2. Nevill Holt
3. Irish patriot Robert Emmet, Nancy's "great-granduncle"
4. Maud and Bache Cunard
5. Nancy, at school 6. Iris Tree
7. The menu of the Eiffel Tower 8. Augustus John, self-portrait
9. Wyndham Lewis
xo. Blast, the voice of Vorticism
11. Edward, Prince of Wales
12. Ezra Pound
13. T.S.Eliot
14. Virginia Woolf 15. Nancy and her friends volunteer for war charity 16. Nancy in a tableau vivant at a war-bond event
17. The announcement of Nancy's engagement 18. Sydney Fairbairn, Nancy's husband
19. Outlaws is published
Following page 124 20. Nancy and Tristan Tzara at a ball in Paris, as photographed by Man Ray
21. Louis Aragon
22. Janet Flanner
23. Solita Solano
24. Kay Boyle
25. Aldous Huxley 26. William Carlos Williams
27. Constantin Brancusi 28. Nancy models a coat designed by Sonia Delauney, as photographed by Curtis Moffat
29. Nancy, a fashion icon of the 1920s, as photographed by Barbara Ker-Seymer 30. Nancy, as photographed by Man Ray 31. Nancy, as photographed by Cecil Beaton 32. John Banting, portrait of Nancy 33. Constantin Brancusi, Jeune Fille sophistiquee and The White Negress 34. Oskar Kokoschka, Painting of Nancy Cunard
35. Manuel Ortiz de Zarate, Nancy as a madonna 36. Eugene McCown, Portrait of Nancy Cunard 37. Alvaro Guevara, portrait of Nancy 38. Wyndham Lewis, drawing of Nancy 39. Nancy, as photographed by Curtis Moffat
Following page 180
40. Nancy in Reanville
41. Working the Mathieu press 42. Relaxing with Tristan Tzara 43. African objects displayed in an elegant cabinet 44. A sampling of Nancy's bracelets 45. Henry Crowder 46. Henry-Music, published by the Hours Press Press 47. coverage in New York as Nancy prepares Negro 48. Front-page coverage continues 49. Langston Hughes 50. An illustration from Negro The Scottsboro 51. boys, from Nancys essay in Negro
Following page 268 52. An invitation to authors to "Take Sides" of 53. Nancy's snapshot soldiers in Franco's army 54. Nancy's three snapshots of soldiers in the Republican forces 55. Pablo Neruda 56. Nancy, at fifly-two 57. Bracelets, a part of Nancy's everyday dress 58. Henry Moore 59. Pablo Casals 60. Samuel Beckett 61. Nancy, ill, visiting friends 62. Nancy, flirting with a young Spanish boyfriend S, C. 63. Harrison, portrait of George Moore, Nancy's most cherished possession x • Illustrations