"Emerald & Nancy: Lady Cunard And Her Daughter" 1968 FIELDING, Daphne
$60
FIELDING, Daphne
[205] pp.
Eyre & Spottiswoode
1968
First Edition
8 3/4" x 6"
Photo on back cover by Cecil Beaton
Fine/ Fine
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Daphne Fielding's double biography of society hostess Emerald Cunard and her estranged daughter, Nancy. The book explores Emerald's marriages and her social and artistic campaigns. It then moves on to Nancy's life in France, her support of Jazz, her fight against racism and fascism, and the work of the Hours Press.
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. 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—as well as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Constantin Brâncuși, Langston Hughes, Man Ray and William Carlos Williams. MI5 documents reveal that she was involved with Indian socialist leader VK Krishna Menon.