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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 .
The Tour Eiffel restaurant had been visited frequently by the Poets' Club of T. E. Hulme, including F. S. Flint and Ezra Pound, and thus had been a centre for Imagism.It became a favourite location for the literary circles around Augustus John, Wyndham Lewis and Nancy Cunard, which through Lewis included the Vorticists. [2]
Its members included Lady Diana Manners, then considered a famous beauty in England; Duff Cooper, who became a Conservative politician and a diplomat; Raymond Asquith, son of the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith and a famed barrister; Maurice Baring; Patrick Shaw-Stewart, a managing director of Barings Bank and war poet; Julian & Billy Grenfell, Nancy Cunard and her friend Iris Tree; Edward Horner ...
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In 1911, leaving Cunard in Leicestershire, Lady Cunard moved to London with Nancy. [3] The biographer Alan Jefferson writes, "Soon she had captured all London society, and her … salon became the most important Mecca for musicians, painters, sculptors, poets and writers as well as for politicians, soldiers, aristocrats – indeed anybody so long as they were interesting". [9]
Banting's association with Nancy Cunard and the poet Brian Howard marked his increasing political awareness. He visited Harlem with Cunard in 1931 to investigate racial politics and civil rights, and contributed poems to her Negro Anthology (1935).
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The Cunard shipping family owned the estate from 1876 to 1912 and Nancy Cunard (1896–1965), writer, anti-racism and anti-fascism activist, publisher and society hostess, was born here. [5] [6] [7] In 1919 the hall became a preparatory school, run by the Phillips family from 1928, the school was an IAPS boarding school.