With her partner, Jane Heap, Anderson introduced the American public to the
works of T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Ernest Hemingway, and Ezra Pound,
who was also the foreign editor. The Little Review featured pieces by Emma
Goldman, Gertrude Stein, Vachel Lindsay, Andre Breton, and artists Jean
Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, and Francis Picabia. Its most notorious publication,
a serialization of James Joyce’s Ulysses, led to a celebrated obscenity trial in
which Anderson was convicted.

Free-thinking and free-living, Anderson was always beset by financial
difficulties. She lived here, at 837 West Ainslie Street, when she began The
Little Review, but soon was compelled to make camp on the shores of Lake
Michigan when rent payments became prohibitive. She battled with creditors
and censors including the U.S. Post Office, which would burn whole runs of the
magazine it deemed obscene.

When Anderson and Heap took The Little Review to New York City in 1917,
writer and friend Ben Hecht lamented, “Where is Athens now?”