In memoriam Nancy Cunard

Speranza

The only child of an American society hostess and an English baronet Nancy Cunard became the darling of high-café society in the twenties and thirties.

She knew T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Louis Aragon.

She sat for Cecil Beaton and Max Beerbohm sketched her.

She was an Aldous Huxley heroine in "Antic Hay".

She was also a poet and a publisher, a passionate advocate of racial equality, and a journalist in the Spanish Civil War.

By the time of her tragic death in 1965, Nancy Cunard had become the dazzling symbol of her age.