Nancy Cunard letters to Walter J. Strachan, 1943-1965.

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Nancy Cunard letters to Walter J. Strachan, 1943-1965.

This correspondence is composed of approximately 125 letters to Walter Strachan from 1943 to 1965. Many parts of these letters were used as a basis for Strachan's book Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel, but the rest remains unpublished.

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Strachan, W. J. (Walter John), 1903-1994

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English poet, translator, and art historian. From the description of Correspondence, 1954-1992. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309774364 ...

Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965

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Nancy Clare Cunard (March 10, 1896 - March 17, 1965) was an English writer, editor, publisher, political activist, anarchist and poet. She became a muse to some of the 20th century's most distinguished writers and artists, including Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound, and Louis Aragon, who were among her lovers, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Constantin Brancusi, Langston Hughes, Man Ray, and William Carlos Williams. In later years she suffered from mental illness, and her p...