Jane Heap
(1887 - 1964) U.S.A.
Editor
 Her main claim to fme is her co-editorship, together with her one-time lover Margaret Anderson, of The Little Review (1914-29). It proved to be one of the most important magazines of the high modernist period. Anderson started it in Chicago but it, and Heap and Anderson, moved to Paris in 1922.
 In 1924 Jane Heap, by now estranged from Anderson, went back to New York but returned to Paris in 1927, only to close The Little Review in 1929.
Jane Heap was an active member of the lesbian circles of Paris and New York during the 1920s. She is suppesed to have had an affair with Djuna Barnes and with Elspeth Champcommunal. In her later life she led a rather withdrawn existence. Little is known about her final years.
"Little Review" reunion: (from left to right)
Jane Heap, Mina Loy, and Ezra Pound
Paris, c. 1923
Excerpts from: Gabriele Griffin, Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay and Writing, Routledge, London, 2002
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