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Egoist
, July 15, 1914, reprinted in
EP/JJ
, p. 29.
“absolutely permanent”
:
EP to JQ, Sept. 8, 1915,
EP/JQ
, p. 48.
“I have been wondering”
:
Weaver to JJ, Nov. 30, 1915, Cornell, Series IV Box 14.
a pamphlet of poems
:
DMW
, p. 104.
“We could not”
:
Billing and Sons qtd.
DMW
, p. 117.
thirteen printers refused
:
Weaver to JJ, May 19, 1916, Cornell, Series IV Box 14.
“And damn”
:
EP to Weaver, March 17, 1916, EP,
Selected Letters of Ezra Pound
(New York: New Directions, 1971), p. 122. See also EP to JJ, March 16, 1916,
EP/JJ
, p. 75.
Joyce implored Pound
:
JJ to James Pinker, Jan. 9, 1916,
LII
, p. 370.
“There is no editor”
:
EP to JJ, Jan. 16, 1916,
EP/JJ
, p. 62.
6. LITTLE MODERNISMS
117 magazine contributions
:
Robert Scholes,
Magazine Modernisms: An Introduction
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2010), p. 6.
wouldn’t publish
:
Thacker, “Marsden and
Egoist,
” p. 187, citing EP,
Selected Letters
, p. 259.
Dana
published three
:
See Ell, p. 165.
they rejected
:
William Magee to JJ, June 30, 1904, Cornell, Series IV Box 11.
“Feminism”
and
male turnout:
See
LR
1, no. 2 (April 1914), pp. 44, 30.
“tortured and crucified”
:
MCA, “Mrs. Ellis’s Failure,”
LR
2, no. 1 (March 1915), p. 19 (italics in original). Baggett claims that this is “the first known editorial by a lesbian in favor of gay rights.” See Jane Heap and Florence Reynolds,
Dear Tiny Heart: The Letters of Jane Heap and Florence Reynolds
, ed. Holly Baggett (New York: New York University Press, 2000), p. 3.
“Aren’t you”
:
TYW
, pp. 68–69.
“I feel as if”
:
Letter from Will Levington Comfort,
LR
2, no. 1 (March 1915), pp. 56–57.
“I demand that life”
:
TYW
, p. 35.
assistant for
The Dial
:
Ibid., pp. 28–31.
“A New Day”
:
See, e.g.,
LR
1, nos. 7–8 (Oct. and Nov. 1914).
“stood pouring out”
:
Eunice Tietjens,
The World at My Shoulder
(New York: Macmillan, 1938), pp. 63–69.
enthusiast of Nietzsche
:
See DeWitt C. Wing, “Dr. Foster’s Articles on Nietzsche,”
LR
1, no. 3 (May 1914), pp. 31–32.
bird watching
:
DeWitt C. Wing, “Robins Nests,”
Auk
32 (1915), pp. 106–7.
vellum label hand-pasted
:
Christine Stansell,
American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century
(New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000), p. 201.
“If you’ve ever”
:
MCA, “Announcement,”
LR
1, no. 1 (March 1914).
an upstairs room
:
TYW
, pp. 11–13.
smoking cigarettes
:
Ibid., p. 24.
“conquer the world”
:
Ibid., p. 11.
“The State”
:
Emma Goldman, “Socialism: Caught in the Political Trap,” in
Red Emma Speaks: Selected Writings and Speeches,
ed. Alix Kates Shulman (New York: Random House, 1972), p. 102.
“living force”
:
Emma Goldman, “Anarchism: What It Really Stands For,” ibid., p. 74.
“a cosmos”
:
Emma Goldman, “The Individual, Society and the State,” ibid., p. 111.
“the salvation of man”
:
Goldman, “Anarchism: What It Really Stands For,” pp. 75–76.
two Goldman lectures
:
MCA, “The Challenge of Emma Goldman,”
LR
1, no. 3 (May 1914), p. 6.
just enough time
:
TYW
, p. 55.
Six months later
:
Ibid., pp. 67–74.
“Applied Anarchism”
:
MCA, “Editorials and Announcements,”
LR
2, no. 4 (June–July 1915), p. 36.
highest human ideal
:
MCA, “The Immutable,” Ibid., p. 21.
“We thought we were”
:
“Christmas Tree Traps ‘Anarchy’ on North Shore,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, Jan. 21, 1915, p. 1.
“Why shouldn’t women”
:
“This Chicago Girl at the Age of 24 Smokes, Wears Pants and in Short Is Real Society Rebel,”
Washington Post
, Oct. 31, 1915, p. E12.
“missing link”
:
“Fool Killer Needed,”
Daily Herald
(Mississippi), Nov. 3, 1915, p. 4.
“overthrow of both”
:
Emma Goldman, “Preparedness: The Road to Universal Slaughter,”
LR
2, no. 9 (Dec. 1915), p. 12.
“why didn’t someone”
:
MCA, “Toward Revolution,”
LR
2, no. 9 (Dec. 1915), p. 5.
Detectives showed up
:
TYW
, p. 75.
“Editors’ Row”
:
“Christmas Tree Traps ‘Anarchy’ on North Shore,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, Jan. 21, 1915, p.1.
set up camp
and
“the original cleansing”:
TYW
, pp. 86–91; “Ours Is the Life; Others Are Odd: Miss Anderson,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, Aug. 9, 1915, p. 13.
Oscar Wilde
:
Linda Lappin, “Jane Heap and Her Circle,”
Prairie Schooner
78, no. 4 (2004), p. 14.
mental institution
:
Ibid., p. 12.
“I know that”
:
Jane Heap to Florence Reynolds, July 20, 1909,
Dear Tiny Heart
, p. 38. I have maintained Heap’s inconsistent capitalization of “God.”
Jane never quoted
:
TYW
, p. 124.
begged her to write
:
Ibid, p. 110.
magazine’s design
:
Susan Noyes Platt, “
The Little Review
: Early Years and Avant-Garde Ideas,” in Sue Ann Prince, ed.,
The Old Guard and the Avant-Garde: Modernism in Chicago, 1910
–
1940
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), p. 152.
“I felt as if”
and
“The Ballad”:
TYW
, pp. 126–7.
“Our culture”
:
MCA, “To the Innermost,”
LR
1, no. 7 (Oct. 1914), pp. 3, 5.
“ ‘People’ has become”
:
MCA, “The Artist in Life,”
LR
2, no. 4 (June–July 1915), pp. 18–20. My italics.
“The ultimate reason”
and
“Now we shall have”:
MCA, “A Real Magazine,”
LR
3, no. 5 (Aug. 1916), pp. 1–2;
TYW
, p. 124.
“All things are nothing”
:
Max Stirner (trans. Byington),
The Ego and His Own
(New York: Dover, 2005), pp. 3, 366.
forty-nine printings
:
Lawrence Stepelevich, “The Revival of Max Stirner,”
Journal of the History of Ideas
35 (April–June 1974), p. 324.
Joyce read Stirner
:
Ell, 142n.
Ezra Pound
:
Michael Levenson,
Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine, 1908
–
1922
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 72–74.
Margaret Anderson
:
MCA, “The Challenge of Emma Goldman,”
LR
1, no. 3 (May 1914), p. 6.
“most powerful work”
:
Dora Marsden,
New Freewoman
, Sept. 1, 1913, p. 104. See also Garner,
Spirit
, pp. 102–3.
Nietzsche and Ibsen
:
See, for example, James Huneker,
Egoists: A Book of Supermen: Stendahl, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Anatole France, Huysmans, Barrès, Nietzsche, Blake, Ibsen, Stirner, and Ernest Hello
(New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1921).
7. THE MEDICI OF MODERNISM
while Quinn dressed
:
MNY
, p. 165.
above-market prices
:
Ibid., p. 168.
In 1912, Quinn
:
Ibid., pp. 144–7.
biggest single contributor
:
Ibid., pp. 144–5.
“epoch making”
:
Milton W. Brown et al.,
Story of the Armory Show
(Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1963), pp. 43–44;
MNY
, p. 147.
an understatement
:
See Bruce Altshuler, ed.,
Salon to Biennial: Exhibitions that Made Art History,
vol. 1. With the exception of Paris’s 1905 Salon d’Autumne, no other exhibition was nearly as large since 1863.
fewer than 250
:
Roger Fry and Desmond McCarthy, “Manet and the Post-Impressionists” Exhibition Catalogue (London:
Grafton Galleries, 1910).
about 1,300 artworks
:
Altshuler,
Salon to Biennial,
p. 153.
burned in effigy
and
three hundred thousand:
Milton Brown, “The Armory Show and Its Aftermath,” in
1915, The Cultural Moment: The New Politics, the New Woman, the New Psychology, the New Art and the New Theatre in America
, ed. Adele Heller and Louis Rudnick (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1991), pp. 166–7.
“a lunatic fringe”

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