Alice B. Toklas

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.

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...

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...

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

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

Alice B. Toklas , faithful partner of Gertrude Stein , died at nearly ninety after twenty years of widowhood and of seeing Stein's unpublished works into print.

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

In 1911, when she was nearly sixty, JCF stayed with Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia in Florence, and there met Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas . Stein described her as a very...

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 .

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...

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

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...

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)

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