Ooooooh...coolness!

[readingredhead]

So I was randomly searching my name on google (and finding nothing) when I then decided to search a name of a relative of mine way back, one Nancy Cunard. I learned that she existed last summer when we looked up the Cunard line genealogy in the Reading Room of the British Museum in London. So I searched her and found that she's got a wikipedia site at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Cunard. As soon as I saw that one of the tabs in the main entry was labeled "Outlandish Behavior, Relationships" I was hooked. She seems like the sort of person I very much would have liked to know. I just felt like I had to post this, because I found it so interesting. Really random last note -- she apparently had a fling with Aldous Huxley, as in the guy who wrote Brave New World. Now that is kinda cool...

Comments

[dirtydarthdrama.livejournal.com]

Do you happen to know how she is related to you in more detail?

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

Heh, no idea, except that she's a Cunard. I could probably figure it out in more depth...but it would take that whole "time" thing which I'm kinda lacking at the moment... It's definitely a summer project, though.

[dirtydarthdrama.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I don't think there is anyone of any renown in my family due to conditions like perpetual poverty until my father's (and to a lesser degree, my grandfather's) generation. But I do believe that members of my family bootlegged alcohol in the hills of Tennessee during Prohibition, so that's something. What, I'm not sure, but it's something

[cucumber-eyes89.livejournal.com]

That is SO cool... OMYGOSH! -does a dance of joy-