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2 weeks agoShe Shook Up the Literary World, Then Renounced It
Margaret C. Anderson transformed The Little Review into an influential transatlantic modernist journal and faced legal prosecution for serializing Ulysses.
In 1921, Anderson was prosecuted by the U.S. government-the novel was thought "obscene"-and though Morgan focusses much of his attention on her trial, he also takes in her childhood, in Indianapolis; her years in Chicago, New York, and Paris; and her association with prominent figures of her time, such as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and the anarchist Emma Goldman.