Alice B. Toklas

GS published, in French, her second portrait of Picasso. An English version was published after revisions were made by Alice Toklas .

GS published The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

Gertrude Stein concerned herself with problems of identity, knowledge, consciousness, and language. In a period of modernist experiment, she became famous as a radically innovative avant-gardist. Her experimental imagination played around with the generic requirements...

GS was born in the United States to middle-class, Jewish parents who had emigrated from Germany. She did not follow Jewish customs, but she did attempt to think through issues of The Modern Jew...

GS did not identify herself as a lesbian; her relationship with Alice Toklas resembled a heterosexual pairing of husband and wife.

After many unsuccessful attempts to see GS 's manuscripts into print, Alice Toklas became Stein's adventurous publisher. Stein sold Picasso's Femme à l'éventail in order to finance the venture. Toklas persuaded bookshops in...

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 called him that tragic, haunted, and noble artist—one of the most generous human beings I have ever known. She was forty and Pavlik was twenty-nine when they met at the home of Gertrude Stein

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...

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...

While living in Paris, Mirrlees and Harrison entertained visitors who included HM 's mother (widowed in 1924), and Virginia and Leonard Woolf . The two women were acquainted with Edith Wharton , Dorothy (Strachey)

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...

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

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...