From the time when the Atlantic Monthly published the first serial instalments of this book, English readers as well as American were enthusiastic, and enthusiasm grew with its appearance as a volume.
Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley.
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Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
With this purchase Gertrude and Leo embarked on a course that made them not only patrons but also close friends of Matisse
and the circle of young, emerging artists congregated in Paris: painters Georges Braque