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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 devoted much of her life to fighting racism and fascism.
Jul 21, 2007 · In her new biography, Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Activist, author Lois Gordon shines a spotlight on a woman history seems to have forgotten. Unhappy with a life of privilege, Cunard...
Mar 10, 2022 · Shipping heiress Nancy Cunard, pictured here in Paris in 1930, helped create the activist model for modern it girls. She’s among the women whose lives are chronicled in Laura Thompson’s...
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Mar 5, 2023 · Nancy Cunard, pictured here in 1932, might be best known today as a rebel heiress, but in her day she was a pioneering publisher, an accomplished poet, and a crusader for equality who was well...
Apr 1, 2007 · An unconventional child of privilege, Nancy Cunard was a poet, publisher, journalist and supporter of the disenfranchised.
Learn about Nancy Cunard, a socialite who became a prominent anti-racist and communist activist in the 1930s. Explore the documents that reveal her relationship with Henry Crowder, her involvement with the Scottsboro Boys, and her surveillance by the police and MI5.
English poet, journalist, publisher, and aristocrat who crusaded against racial and class prejudices and fascist oppression. Name variations: Nancy Fairbairn. Born Nancy Clara Cunard at Nevill Holt, in Leicestershire, England, on March 10, 1896; died at Hôpital Cochin in Paris, France, on March 16, 1965; buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris;
