Margaret Anderson

Margaret Anderson. . , Margaret Anderson , Editor and Writer , 1886-1973, Margaret Anderson awoke one night curiously depressed from the realization that there was nothing inspiring in her life. As the remedy, she founded the avant-garde literary magazine, The Little Review, in March 1914, during Chicago’s literary renaissance. “An organ of two interests, art and good talk about art,” the first issue of the monthly featured discussions of feminism and psychoanalysis., With her partner, Jane Heap, Anderson introduced the American public to the works of T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Ernest Hemingway, and Ezra Pound, who was also the foreign editor. The Little Review featured pieces by Emma Goldman, Gertrude Stein, Vachel Lindsay, Andre Breton, and artists Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, and Francis Picabia. Its most notorious publication, a serialization of James Joyce’s Ulysses, led to a celebrated obscenity trial in which Anderson was convicted., Free-thinking and free-living, Anderson was always beset by financial difficulties. She lived here, at 837 West Ainslie Street, when she began The Little Review, but soon was compelled to make camp on the shores of Lake Michigan when rent payments became prohibitive. She battled with creditors and censors including the U.S. Post Office, which would burn whole runs of the magazine it deemed obscene., When Anderson and Heap took The Little Review to New York City in 1917, writer and friend Ben Hecht lamented, “Where is Athens now?” ,