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Name	Anderson, Margaret
Born	Nov. 24, 1886
Birthplace	Indianapolis, Indiana
Places of residence	Lived at 837 W. Anslie Avenue, Chicago Lived in New York Lived in France
Nationality	American
Education	Western College for Women in Oxford Ohio
Occupation	Publisher, Editor, and Author Worked in the Chicago Fine Arts Building Book reviewer for "The Continent", a religious weekly, and then for "The Dial" magazine. By 1913 Anderson was a book critic for the "Chicago Evening Post". Founded "The Little Review" an art magazine in March 1914. The magazine became a centerpiece of the Chicago Literary Renaissance of the 1910s, featuring work by avant-garde writers, poets, feminists, philosophers and anarchists.
Role	Writer
Publications	The Little Review Three Volume Autobiography consisting of My Thirty Years' War, The Fiery Fountains, and The Strange Necessity. Novel and Memoir, Forbidden Fires.
Relationships	The Little Review published early works of some of the most influential new writers in the English language, including George Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats and Stephen Crane. A few chapters of Joyce's Ulysses were printed in early 1918 before being stopped by censors.
Notes	In December 1914, Anderson "…wanted to find something modest in the country. And found it - going out at random on the Chicago and Northwestern and getting off at a station whose name promised much: Lake Bluff," according to her autobiography. She and her entourage moved into the Parkhurst Cottage on Ravine and Sunrise, but she was only there for a few weeks because, as noted in the Lake Bluff Chat, "Miss Margaret Anderson, after taking the Parkhurst house on the lakefront for the year, was frozen out and is now in the Butman Cottage." (Dec. 24, 1914.) The Butman Cottage was probably 711 Prospect Ave. In August 1915, Anderson was unable to pay the rent on the Butman Cottage. She and the three adults and two children who lived with her built a colony on the beach between Braeside and Ravina in Highland Park.

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1. 60 Summers Ago - A Chicago Tribune article written by Vera Flach recalling her early childhood spent in Lake Bluff. The article, 60 Summers Ago, talks about her playing croquet on the lawn, the artists' colony and her grandfather Reverend Jervis Evans, whom she said helped to found the Prohibition party and once nominated for President of the United States,she adds, Evans was never on the ticket. There are two photos a beach scene with people and a a group of women walking up a wooded path. Both are postcards the Museum owns.

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3. Margaret Anderson - A typed article on onion skin, possibly from a newspaper, dated May 24, 1915. The article reports the end of the Little Review, a literary magazine, edited by Margaret Anderson, was forced to stop publication because the printer of the Review was owed $300. The article goes on to say: "The little literary colony at Lake Bluff is all aflutter. The Little Review has ceased to flutter and Miss Margaret C. Anderson, its erstwhile editor, is facing a heartless printer man who wants his money." "The literary colony of Lake Bluff, including Lois Peters, Miss Harriet Dean of Indianapolis, Emma Goldman, Mrs. Alice Corbin Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. Lucien Cary and others have helped Miss Anderson before. They all chipped in when she was arrested and fine $10 for cutting down one of Harry Bunting's cultivated fir trees to use as a Christmas tree."

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4. Margaret Anderson - Black and white photo of Margaret Anderson.

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5. Margaret Anderson - Black and white photo of Margaret Anderson sitting in a wagon

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6. Margaret Anderson - Margaret Anderson was a journalist, author, and editor of the Little Review. Obituary dated October 29, 1973 from Time magazine Excerpts from Anderson's book My Thirty Years' War Two Xerox Lake Bluff Chat articles, one dated March 11, 1915 mentions Anderson and other artists such as John Cotton from Lake Bluff; and another from December 24, 1914 Chat about Miss Anderson taking the Bunting cottage after being frozen out of the Parkhurst house. Also a print out from the January 21, 1915 Chat stating that Anderson was arrested and fined ten dollars for trespass and damage to property, the warrant was sworn out by Henry Bunting. A Xerox excerpt with photos on Anderson from the Women of Montparnasse. Also an article from the Chicago Tribune describing the life of Chicago's literary artists in the early 20th Century. Anderson lived in Lake Bluff and set up a tent colony on the beach. She once said to the Chicago Tribune : We are not odd, it is the common herd who are off. A typed page and a half excerpt from the November 5, 1915 Chat, that quotes Anderson saying a cigarette is protest and that she has been in revolt since she was 8. 26 pages from the book Chicago Renaissance by Dale Kramer on Anderson.

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7. My Thirty Year's War: The Autobiography Beginnings and Battles to 1930. - Anderson, Margaret

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8. The Little Review: Literature, Drama, Music, Art

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9. The Women of Montparnasse 1920-1940 - Cody, Morrill Hugh Ford

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10. Three images of Margaret Anderson - Three Xerox photos of Margaret Anderson. In one image she is seated in a wagon (see photo 5872), another standing against a wall wearing a flapper dress and the third Anderson is pictured with two other women all wearing fur coats. Margaret Anderson was a journalist, author, and editor of the Little Review

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