Alice B. Toklas

Standard Name: Toklas, Alice B.

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Bryher
During most of the intervening years, they worked, travelled, and lived together, sharing such intimate tasks as the raising of H. D. 's daughter Perdita , who referred to them as my two mothers...
Friends, Associates H. D.
In the 1920s, while HD and Bryher were living rootlessly, sometimes in London, sometimes in Europe, HD's list of acquaintances grew to include Gertrude Stein , Alice B. Toklas , Ernest Hemingway , James Joyce
Friends, Associates Mina Loy
ML first met Leo and Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas at Mabel Dodge 's Florence salon. Mina's and Gertrude's friendship continued for many years, and Mina wrote and spoke about Stein's writing in the 1920s...
Friends, Associates Hope Mirrlees
While living in Paris, Mirrlees and Harrison entertained visitors who included HM 's mother (widowed in 1924), and Virginia and Leonard Woolf .
Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press.
298
The two women were acquainted with Edith Wharton , Dorothy (Strachey)
Residence Laura Riding
After a visit to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in the French Alps, LR and Robert Graves arrived on the island of Mallorca, where they settled in the village of Deyá in a...
Friends, Associates Laura Riding
Graves and Riding were touchy as friends, between their sense of literary mission (they saw Graves's biography of T. E. Lawrence as a somewhat demeaning potboiler, not part of his real work at all) and...
Family and Intimate relationships Edith Sitwell
She called him that tragic, haunted, and noble artist—one of the most generous human beings I have ever known.
Sitwell, Edith. Taken Care Of: An Autobiography. Hutchinson.
137
She was forty and Pavlik was twenty-nine when they met at the home of Gertrude Stein
Travel Gertrude Stein
GS and Alice Toklas travelled from Paris to London, where they were brought into contact with the Bloomsbury group.
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
78-9
Publishing Gertrude Stein
This restatement of GS 's ideas on art and on Picasso was her first piece in French. The volume included sixty-three monochrome plates (eight in colour).
Bridgman, Richard. Gertrude Stein in Pieces. Oxford University Press.
288
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
The English edition, previously assumed to be an...
Travel Gertrude Stein
GS , Alice Toklas , Lytton Strachey , and Bertrand Russell were guests at Alfred North Whitehead 's home in Sarsen Land, Lockridge, when news of the German invasion of Belgium induced them to prolong their stay.
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
84-5
Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley.
212, 215
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Gertrude Stein
Ada is one of GS 's earliest portraits: it is of Alice Toklas , and celebrates their loving union.
Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley.
146-7
What Happened? A Five Act Play, written in 1913, is GS 's first play....
Occupation Gertrude Stein
GS and Alice Toklas were awarded the Reconnaissance Française for their voluntary war efforts.
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
94
Publishing Gertrude Stein
In her will GS instructed her executors, Alice Toklas and Allan Stein , to pay Carl Van Vechten whatever he needed to have all her manuscripts published. Donald Gallup , curator of the Collection of American Literature
Occupation Gertrude Stein
GS and Alice Toklas established their publishing house, Plain Edition , which lasted until 1934.
Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley.
295-6
Textual Production Gertrude Stein
Things As They Are was GS 's first mature literary work, written in 1903 and originally entitled Q. E. D.
Q. E. D. stands for Quod Erat Demonstrandum (this is what was to be...

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Texts

Toklas, Alice B. What Is Remembered. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1963.