Dear Tiny Heart

Dear Tiny Heart THE CUTTING EDGE Lesbian Life and Literature THE CUTTING EDGE Lesbian Life and Literature Series Editor: Karla Jay The Cook and the Carpenter: A Novel by the Carpenter by June Arnold with an introduction by Bonnie Zimmerman Dear Tiny Heart: The Letters of Jane Heap and Florence Reynolds edited by Holly A. Baggett Ladies Almanack by Djuna Barnes with an introduction by Susan Sniader Lanser Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings edited by Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney translated by John Spalding Gatton with an introduction by Karla Jay Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia’s Sappho by Diana Burgin The Angel and the Perverts by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus translated and with an introduction by Anna Livia Paint It Today by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) edited and with an introduction by Cassandra Laity Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives Marilyn R. Farwell Spinsters and Lesbians: Independent Womanhood in the United States, 1890–1930 and 1950–1980 by Trisha Franzen Diana: A Strange Autobiography by Diana Frederics with an introduction by Julie L. Abraham Your John: The Love Letters of Radclyffe Hall edited and with an introduction by Joanne Glasgow Lover by Bertha Harris Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing by renée c. hoogland Lesbian Erotics edited by Karla Jay Changing Our Minds: Lesbian Feminism and Psychology by Celia Kitzinger and Rachel Perkins (Sem)Erotics: Theorizing Lesbian : Writing by Elizabeth A. Meese Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution by Paula C. Rust Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian Resistance in Jane Rule’s Fiction by Marilyn R. Schuster The Search for a Woman-Centered Spirituality by Annette J. Van Dyke Lesbian Friendships: For Ourselves and Each Other edited by Jacqueline S. Weinstock and Esther D. Rothblum I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister, 1791–1840 edited by Helena Whitbread No Priest but Love: The Journals of Anne Lister, 1824–26 edited by Helena Whitbread THE CUTTING EDGE Lesbian Life and Literature Series Editor: Karla Jay Professor of English and Women’s Studies pace university EDITORIAL BOARD Judith Butler, Rhetoric Jane Marcus university of English and Women’s Studies california, berkeley city college and city university of new york Blanche Wiesen Cook graduate center History and Women’s Studies john jay college and Biddy Martin city university of new york German Studies and Women’s Studies graduate center cornell university Diane Grifﬁn Crowder Elizabeth A. Meese, English French and Women’s Studies university of alabama cornell college Esther Newton, Anthropology Elaine Ginsberg, English suny, purchase west virginia university Joanne Glasgow Terri de la Peña English and Women’s Studies Novelist/Short-Story Writer bergen community college Ruthann Robson, Writer Marny Hall law school, queens college Psychotherapist and Writer city university of new york Celia Kitzinger, Social Studies Leila J. Rupp, History loughborough university, uk ohio state university Paula Rust, Sociology Elizabeth Wood hamilton college Musicologist and Writer Committee on Theory and Culture Ann Allen Shockley, Librarian new york university fisk university Bonnie Zimmerman, Women’s Studies san diego state university Dear Tiny Heart The Letters of Jane Heap and Florence Reynolds EDITED BY Holly A. Baggett a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London © 2000 by New York University All rights reserved All photographs are courtesy of the Special Collections, Morris Library, University of Delaware, except the Berenice Abbot photograph of Jane Heap in Paris, which appears here courtesy of Commerce Graphics. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Heap, Jane, 1883–1964. Dear tiny heart : the letters of Jane Heap and Florence Reynolds / edited by Holly A. Baggett. p. cm. — (The cutting edge) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8147-1246-0 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-8147-9856-X (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Heap, Jane, 1883–1964—Correspondence. 2. Editors—United States— Correspondence. 3. Reynolds, Florence, 1879–1949—Correspondence. Lesbians—United States—Correspondence. I. Reynolds, Florence, 1879–1949. II. Baggett, Holly A., 1957– III. Title. IV. Cutting edge (New York, N.Y.) PN149.9.H43 A4 2000 808'.027'092273—dc21 99-050760 New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. Manufactured in the United States of America 10987654321 This book is dedicated to my mother, Bonnie Baker Baggett, a woman who has received many letters in her life, and answered them all with love. .

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