How do women recollect their terrible romances? And, how can their biographers reconstruct the feelings that brought these women into the romance to begin with?

Did Anita Loos really appear on the cover of The Masses? Or was it The Liberator? And what was her relationship to radical artist Frank Walts? Also, how delightful is this book plate?!

What was the Hays Code? And how did witty Anita Loos feel about it?

Jean Harlow, Anita Loos, and Red-Headed Woman’s Lil made an excellent trio. A gold-digging redhead who played dumb or defenseless as the occasion demanded, Lil was an ideal vehicle for both Anita and Jean’s talents: a pretty woman as Trojan horse.

the question we’re all here for: did Anita Loos ever win an Oscar?

For your Valentine’s Day, here’s a roundup of modernist women and some of their least problematic objects of affection: their dogs.