​Ulysses in the Little Review

Margaret Anderson (1886–1973) founded the American literary magazine the Little Review in 1914. Her friend and partner Jane Heap (1883–1964) became the art editor, and Ezra Pound served as foreign editor. Together they helped shape a version of literary modernism, publishing writers such as Gertrude Stein, Wyndham Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, Djuna Barnes, T. S. Eliot, and Jean Toomer, one of the few Black writers included in their enterprise. When Margaret Anderson read the beginning of Ulysses in February 1918, she vowed to print it “if it’s the last effort of our lives.”