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

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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

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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.