Alice B. Toklas

She had undergone surgery that morning, after collapsing from stomach pain several days earlier. Although doctors advised that the risk was too great, GS had insisted the operation should take place. Her last words were...

She made Alice Toklas and her American nephew Allan Stein her joint-executors, and authorized them for the rest of Alice's life to make payments to [Alice Toklas] from the principal of [GS 's] Estate...

Stein's partner Alice Toklas converted to Catholicism in 1957, allegedly because she liked the idea of meeting up with Stein in heaven.

Written as early as 1911, Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein is also known as G. M. P.It first appeared from Plain Edition , a publishing house Alice Toklas established for the purpose of publishing Stein's work.

GS met Alice Toklas in Paris and they fell in love.

GS had her poem separately reprinted by Alice Toklas with Plain Edition because she was unhappy with the manner in which Hugnet had set her translation in his book.She felt that she had done him...

A banquet in Paris for the painter Hénri Rousseau (le douanier) was attended by a colourful convoy including Leo and Gertrude Stein , Alice Toklas , Max Jacob , Guillaume Apollinaire , Marie Laurencin and Pablo Picasso .

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).The English edition, previously assumed to be an...

GS and Alice Toklas travelled from Paris to London, where they were brought into contact with the Bloomsbury group.

Ada is one of GS 's earliest portraits: it is of Alice Toklas , and celebrates their loving union.What Happened? A Five Act Play, written in 1913, is GS 's first play....

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.

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

GS and Alice Toklas were awarded the Reconnaissance Française for their voluntary war efforts.

Things As They Are was GS 's first mature literary work, written in 1903 and originally entitled Q. E. D.

GS and Alice Toklas established their publishing house, Plain Edition , which lasted until 1934.