If there is anything I really fear it is the mind of a young girl.
Jane Heap Quotes
Showing all quotesBirth: | 1883 |
Death: | 1964 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Editor, Publisher |
Jane Heap was born in Topeka, Kansas, USA. She was an American publisher and a significant figure in the development and promotion of literary modernism. Together with Margaret Anderson, her friend and business partner, she edited the celebrated literary magazine The Little Review, which published an extraordinary collection of modern American, English and Irish writers between 1914 and 1929. After completing her high school education, she moved to Chicago, where she enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago, and continued to take night school classes there even after she became an art teacher at the Lewis Institute. From the late 1930s, she became the companion of the founding editor of British Vogue and head designer at Worth London Elspeth Champcommunal.
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