Picasso and his lover Fernande Bellevalleé (later Olivier)
were hosting a small dinner to hear Rousseau play the violin. The small dinner swelled in size as word-of-mouth circulation made its existence known. But the caterer...
Intertextuality and Influence
Gertrude Stein
GS
's studies in psychology, philosophy, and medicine fiction left a deep imprint on her way of thinking and in her work. At Radcliffe College
she learned from William James
his philosophy of Pragmatism: I...
Reception
Gertrude Stein
Alfred Stieglitz
, the editor of Camera Work, wrote to tell GS
: You have undoubtedly succeeded in expressing Matisse and Picasso in words.
qtd. in
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975.
This publication was the result of a contract between Bennett Cerf
of Random House
and GS
for a future, second autobiography. Cerf promised to publish all of GS
's works at the rate of one...
Literary responses
Gertrude Stein
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, 1959.
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Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975.