![]() ![]() Highly intelligent, a gifted poet and widely read, she founded a small press that published Samuel Beckett among others. Her mother Lady Cunard, the American heiress Maud Alice Burke (who later changed her name to Emerald) became a reigning London hostess Nancy, from an early age, was given to promiscuity and heavy drinking and preferred a life in the arts to one in the social sphere into which she had been born. Cunard’s early years were ones of great wealth but also emotional deprivation. Her friendship with the famous Irish novelist George Moore, her mother’s lover and a man falsely rumored to be Nancy’s father, was the longest-lasting of her life. Her affairs with acclaimed writers Ezra Pound, Aldous Huxley, Michael Arlen and Louis Aragon were passionate and tempestuous, as was her romance with black jazz pianist Henry Crowder. Her lovers were legion, but this book focuses on five of the most significant and a lifelong friendship. At its center was the gorgeous, seductive English socialite Nancy Cunard, scion of the famous shipping line. The city was at the forefront of everything new and exciting there was no censorship life and love were there for the taking. Paris in the 1920s was bursting with talent in the worlds of art, design and literature. ![]() Anne de Courcy, the author of Husband Hunters and Chanel's Riviera, examines the controversial life of legendary beauty, writer and rich girl Nancy Cunard during her thirteen years in Jazz-Age Paris.
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