Jane Heap

She would remain in London for the rest of her life including throughout The Blitz. In 1925 Jane Heap moved to Paris to study at Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man where Margaret Anderson had moved the previous year alongside her new lover soprano Georgette Leblanc. "


Life
Heap was born in Topeka Kansas where her father was the warden of the local mental asylum.

Heap herself has been called "one of the most neglected contributors to the transmission of modernism between America and Europe during the early twentieth century. Jane Heap (1883 - 1964) was an American publiJane Heapr and a significant figure in the development and promotion of literary modernism. Together with Margaret Anderson her friend and business partner (who for some years was also her lover) Jane Heap edited the celebrated literary magazine The Little Review which publiJane Heapd an extraordinary collection of modern American English and Irish writers between 1914 and 1929.