Jane Heap
1883 – 1964
She coedited The Little Review with Margaret Caroline Anderson. Together they faced the trial of obscenity charges when their magazine serialized James Joyce’s Ulysses. Jean Heap herself contributed her work to the magazine; and her literary career is little known. The magazine grew to be highly celebrated due to its subversive feminism tone. Heap, Anderson, and Ezra Pound worked cross Atlantic to shape what we know to be the Modernism today.
Major works
- Written by Heap:
- Edited by Heap (Chronological)
- Little Review (1914-1929) You can also access to the full text from here.
Known associates
- Margaret Caroline Anderson
- Djuna Barnes (former lover)
- Mina Loy
- Ezra Pound
Further reading
- Jane Heap (University of Delaware)
- Biographical information from the Florence Reynolds Collection related to Jane Heap and The Little Review at the University of Delaware Library.
- A Living of Words: American Women in Print Culture (Susan Albertine, editor; University of Tennessee Press, 1995)
- Not only does this work discuss the co-editorship of Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, it also gives you information on other female figures (especially editors) whose contributions played a part in shaping Modernism.
Primary sources
- Florence Reynolds Collection Related to Jane Heap and The Little Review at the University of Delaware Library–search catalog can be found here.
Modernista Research Guide 