Alice B. Toklas

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.

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, faithful partner of Gertrude Stein , died at nearly ninety after twenty years of widowhood and of seeing Stein's unpublished works into print.

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...