Holly A. Baggett’s recently published Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and The Little Review (2023) is the first book-length account of the lives and editorial careers of Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, founders of the 1914-1929 avant-garde journal, The Little Review.

Born in the 19th-century Midwest, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap grew up to be iconoclastic rebels, living openly as lesbians and advocating causes from anarchy to feminism and free love. Their lives and work shattered cultural, social and sexual norms. As their paths crisscrossed Chicago, New York, Paris and Europe; two World Wars and a parade of the most celebrated artists of their time, they transformed themselves and their journal into major forces for shifting perspectives on literature and art.

Join Baggett as she shares her research on female friendships and relationships as revealed by personal letters in various archives. You will also learn how she uncovered the rich archive of the Florence Reynolds papers related to Jane Heap and The Little Review and was instrumental in bringing this collection to the University of Delaware.

Baggett, a native Delawarean, earned her bachelor's degree from Tulane University and her MA and PhD from the University of Delaware.  She is the editor of Dear Tiny Heart: The Letters of Florence Reynolds and Jane Heap (NYU Press) and numerous articles on Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap. She is professor emerita of History at Missouri State University where she taught for 26 years.

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This event is in collaboration with the Department of History, the Department of English, Africana Studies and the Department of Women and Gender Studies as part of the Fall 2024 American Identity/Queer Community series. Please register for the second event in the American Identity/Queer Community series, schedule for September 26, 2024, 7 p.m., at the link here.

The UD Barnes and Noble Bookstore will be selling books before and after the event.

This in-person event is part of our Scholar in the Library series. It is free and open to the public.

Registration is required as seating is limited. This event will not be recorded.