ABSTRACT
In her autobiography, My Thirty Years’ War, Margaret Anderson describes her 1917 move to New York City as an “exodus” (142). No term could have been more fitting. Anderson, the founder and editor of The Little Review (1914-1929), had announced in the summer of 1916 that the magazine would become “migratory”; two years after establishing The Little Review in Chicago, Anderson moved her tiny staff first briefly to California and then to Manhattan’s West Fourteenth Street, where the magazine would remain until 1923, when it was relocated to Paris. Anderson’s move to New York has been identified by most critics and historians as an enormously enabling act of self-imposed exile. Anderson herself considered The Little Review’s New York years the magazine’s best (Thirty Years 145-46); Hoffman et al designate 1917 to 1923 the magazine’s “years of greatness” (57).
