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Literary Imagination Advance Access originally published online on May 30, 2007
Literary Imagination 2008 10(2):185-197; doi:10.1093/litimag/imm081
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Navy Blues, A Séance

Jane Marcus*

*Jane Marcus, Camargo, Cassis.

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Revising a chapter of my book about Nancy Cunard, called "Closet Autobiography," and rereading the passages I had written about Nancy's conjuring up the feel of her mother's dresses, the sensuous fabrics she describes in her 1954 Memories of George Moore, I see how she uses the memory of touch to recall the lost golden prewar country-house days of the English Belle Epoque—to make a kind of belated peace with her mother. Writing of the "beautiful and exciting ladies ... in sables or long fox stoles, a bunch of Parma violets pinned into the fur on the shoulder," Cunard, the hard-hitting radical journalist, more accustomed to describing the rags of refugees or barefoot Blacks in Jamaica, begins to write about her mother for the first time in more than twenty years, when she had publicly denounced (and personally renounced her) in a shocking pamphlet published in 1931 called . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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