Margaret C. Anderson
(1886 - 1973) U.S.A.
Editor, publisher, critic, memoirist and writer
Anderson was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, leaving to attend the Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio. After college she moved to Chicago, Illinois, where she began reviewing books for a religious weekly and was subsequently hired by the Dial, a literary review where her editorial skills were noted.
Co-founder of the Little Review in 1914, the magazine began serializing James Joyce's Ulisses in 1918, but the four issues containin the novel were seized by the US Post Office and burned because of the sexually explicit material they contained. In 1924 Anderson moved to Paris and became an integral part of the literary and lesbian communities there.
Her known lovers were:
Jane Heap (co-founder of The Little Review), and they lived together for many years in Chicago, California and Paris;
Georgette Leblanc (soprano, author) with whom she lived, and whom she accompanied on the piano during recitals, until Leblanc death in 1941;
and the last major love of her life was Dorothy (Enrico) Caruso (author), with whom she was to live in New York and the south of France until Caruso's death in 1955.
Excerpts from: Aldrich R. & Wotherspoon G., Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History, Routledge, London, 2001
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