The Fiery Fountains: The Autobiography : Continuation and Crisis to 1950

by Margaret Anderson

Book by Anderson, Margaret C.

Genres: Biography Memoir, Biography

242 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1982

About the author

Margaret Caroline Anderson, an American, in 1914 founded The Little Review, an influential literary magazine, and edited it to 1929.

She published of the art collection of modern English and Irish writers between 1914 and 1929. The most noted periodical introduced Ezra Pound, Thomas Stearns Eliot, and many prominent British writers of the 20th century in the United States and published the first thirteen chapters of Ulysses , novel of James Joyce.

Beinecke rare book and manuscript library at Yale University now preserves a large collection of her papers on teaching of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff.

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Reviews

[Gather RI]

Our copy is a first edition from 1951, hardcover

[Noreen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Seems to be set in the Great Gatsby era. Personal journal format. The two women Georgette LeBlanc and Margaret Anderson were a subset to the Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson, Fitzgerald, writers lost generation(?) in France and the countryside until Georgette gets cancer (lymphoma) and they stay in the French countryside until WWII is over. Not great literature, more a personal journal.

Certainly not overly concerned with everyday living. Electricity, heat, running water, a roof, transportation and food. They live from the generosity of friends, including Hemingway. Wine and old chateau's with history are what they like.

Hard time for women to make a living, without a male.Thank you mom.

[Lloyd Francis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Margaret Anderson holds a strange attraction for me. She is NOTHING like me. I probably would find little that we have in common, "externally" but her life is a source of endless fascination for me. The book is the second in a trilogy that begins with My Seven Years War to The Strange Neccessity. The editor of the Little Review with Jane Heap Anderson loved art, and was a bold lesbian in a time when women stood little chance 100 years ago. This volume deals with her work with GI Gurdjieff.
Worthwhile... Actually it is essential.

[Maureen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the second part of Margaret Anderson's three-part autobiography. In the span of years covered here, Anderson and Jane Heap part company, and Anderson takes up company with Georgette LeBlanc. Although surface events calm down for Anderson somewhat, she retains her merciless self-reflection and questioning which make her such an insightful read.