qtd. in
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975.
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Cultural formation | Gertrude Stein | GS
was born in the United States to middle-class, Jewish parents who had emigrated from Germany. qtd. in Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975. 1-4 |
Cultural formation | Gertrude Stein | GS
did not identify herself as a lesbian; her relationship with Alice Toklas
resembled a heterosexual pairing of husband and wife. Souhami, Diana. Gertrude and Alice. Pandora Press, 1991. 94 |
death | Gertrude Stein | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Gertrude Stein | 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, died at nearly ninety after twenty years of widowhood and of seeing Stein's unpublished works into print. Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ . 7 March 2008 |
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, 1965. 137 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Bryher | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Gertrude Stein | Stein's partner Alice Toklas
converted to Catholicism
in 1957, allegedly because she liked the idea of meeting up with Stein in heaven. Castle, Terry. “Husbands and Wives”. London Review of Books, Vol. 29 , No. 24, 13 Dec. 2007, pp. 10-16. 14 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Gertrude Stein | GS
met Alice Toklas
in Paris and they fell in love. Souhami, Diana. Gertrude and Alice. Pandora Press, 1991. 12 Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975. 63 |
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... |
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, 2001. 298 |
Friends, Associates | Julia Constance Fletcher | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Gertrude Stein | 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
. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975. 67 Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley, 1959. 111-17 |
Occupation | Gertrude Stein | After many unsuccessful attempts to see GS
's manuscripts into print, Alice Toklas
became Stein's adventurous publisher. qtd. in Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley, 1959. 296 |
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