This is an eight-page typescript of a previously unknown story from the early 1920s, written by Nancy Cunard. This short, well-written piece is the only fiction Cunard is known to have written, and is set in Paris in the beginning of the 1920s. It relates the unravelling of a relationship between the narrator and Leo, a ‘casual loitering adventurer’, told from a self-aware female perspective. It reveals much of the author's' thinking on relationships, sexuality and emotional involvements; and sheds light on her relationship with the novelist Michael Arden, whom she frequented in Paris in the early 1920s and to whom she had given the typescript to read or edit.

The typescript was found folded in Anne Chisholm's biography Nancy Cunard (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1979) which is here also, exactly as found.

This recently discovered story is published by Anna Girling for the first time in: '"A Lost Night" - A newly discovered story by Nancy Cunard', The Times Literary Supplement, 8 January 2019, at https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/a-lost-night-cunard-story/ [accessed 10 January 2019 - external link]