Profile Relationship to Woolf and/ or O'KeeffeWorks By and About Bourne in The DialOther Works By and About BourneRandolph Bourne was an important social critic with strong socialist/ paciifist views. As an undergraduate at Columbia he contributed influential radical articles to The Masses annd Atlantic Monthly. Bourne joined the staff on The New Republic in 1914 where he began to write a series of columns on reforming contemporary education, influenced by Dewey's pragmatism. An expontent of a "Trans-National America" enriched by the cultural diversity of immigrant populations, Bourne was also an early defender of African American equality and supporter of radical feminists.
By 1916, Bourne's strong pacisfist views had become unacceptable to major publishing venues, and he began publishing in smaller, more radical journals such as Seven Arts and The Dial. Indeed , the quarrel over support of WWI between followers of Bourne opposed to all war and the pragmatic followers of Dewey is blames for almost destroying The Dial and leding to Scofield Thayer's buy-out in 1920.
Bourne died in 1918 at the age of 32, another victim of the influenza epidemic.
Stieglitz never actually met Bourne, but his close friend Paul Rosenfeld was an intimate' Bourne died in Rosenfeld's apartment.
Randolphe Bourne, "An Autobiographical Chapter" 68.1(Jan 1920) 1-21
Elsie Clews Parsons, "A Pacifist Patriot" Rev. of Untimely papers by
Randolph Bourne 68.3 (March 1920) 367- 70
Paul Rosenfeld, "Randolphe Bourne" 75.6 (December 1923) 545-60
Georgia was introduced to Bourne's work very early, 1914? by her then-boyfriend Alfred MacMahon who had been Bourne's roommate at Columbia.
Don't know if the Woolfs knew of Bourne. Leonard would have been most interested since their pacifist views would have coincided well. Bourne somewhat contemptuous of United nationas as another form of imperialism.
