Date of Completion
2024
Thesis Type
College of Arts and Science Honors
Department
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
First Advisor
Paul Deslandes
Second Advisor
Melanie Gustafson
Keywords
queer, lesbian, history, women, love, modernism
Abstract
Margaret Anderson is a profound, influential, and often forgotten modernist in the early twentieth century. Within this time period she founded and edited the Little Review from Chicago and New York and through the rest of her life wrote three autobiographical novels. As a lesbian, she was not supported by a male romantic partner, and in her early days as an anarchist she ceased receiving support from her family. Yet after her thirties, she did not work traditional jobs and instead became interesting enough that her friends, supporters, and chosen family would gift her money to fund her magazine and lifestyle. Margaret Anderson was a performer who created and edited art as a method of funding her life. In this paper I tell the story – both love and otherwise – of two businesswomen: one being Margaret Anderson and the other her long term friend and lover Jane Heap. Through their lives they created a family of friends, lovers, and ex-lovers alike that propelled them forward and allowed them to live the lives they chose.
Recommended Citation
Healy, CJ, "The Lives They Chose: Margaret Anderson and Her Family of Artists" (2024). UVM College of Arts and Sciences College Honors Theses. 150.
https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/castheses/150