Not surprisingly Wyndham Lewis's Tarr is also an unfinished editorial project. Nor can it be said to be complete. Just ask any one of the two-dozen Lewis scholars in the world which of the versions of Tarr is the best or most complete text. Be prepared for a lively response. The first Tarr (there were three “first” Tarrs, all of them different) was a product of the Vorticist period and underwent extensive revision in the late 1920s. It was originally written during the Blast years, from about 1914 to 1916. It began to be serialized in one form in The Egoist on 1 April 1916; it ran until November 1917. This periodical had begun life as The New Freewoman and was still controlled by feminists deeply involved in the suffrage movement. The novel appeared in its first English edition with many revisions in July 1918 from the Egoist Press. It had appeared a few weeks earlier in yet another form from Knopf, the principal publisher of modernist work in New York at the time. As Paul O'Keeffe observes in his Editorial Note to his edition of the novel, these three texts vary substantively (1918, 5). In his reconstruction of the 1918 Knopf text, O'Keeffe, in one of the great editorial achievements of a modernist text, manages to provide, in the apparatus, the means for reconstructing all three originals, although he has chosen to use the Knopf version as his copy text.