Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford: Jeanne Robert Foster and Her Circle of Friends

Jeanne Foster challenged the accepted role for women at the turn of the twentieth century. Born on a hardscrabble farm in the Adirondack Mountains in 1879, she was hailed as an important voice in American poetry by 1916 when her first books of verse, Neighbors of Yesterday and Wild Apples were published. She had early success as a model-she was the Harrison Fisher girl of 1903-and later became a journalist for the American Review of Reviews. In 1918, she met John Quinn, patron of the arts, ...