A Woman to Know: Jane Heap
She almost never quoted anybody and what she said, she expressed in a personal way. She said nothing she had not thought herself. — writer Hugh Ford
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Jane Heap has been called "one of the most neglected contributors to the transmission of modernism between America and Europe during the early twentieth century."
Jane and her then-lover Margaret Anderson founded The Little Review, a powerful literary review highlighting modernist, feminist, queer voices as early as 1914. 1914. Let me say that again — 1 9 1 4.
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Add to your reading list:
Dear Tiny Heart: The Letters of Jane Heap and Florence Reynolds (Holly Baggett)
Modern American Queer History (Allida M. Black)
Read more:
The outsized influence of "The Little Review" (The Chicago Tribune)
Obituary: Jane Heap (The New York Times)
100 Years of Poetry: "In the Middle of Major Men" (Poetry Foundation)
The Little Review (The Modern Journals Project)
Jane Heap and The Little Review (University of Delaware)
Jane Heap (Herstory Archives)
Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, Lesbian Literary Lovers (Lavender Magazine)
Jane Heap, by Rob Baker (Gurdjieff International Review)
Watch more:
Paris Was a Woman (Jezebel Productions)
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