Alice B. Toklas

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, faithful partner of Gertrude Stein , died at nearly ninety after twenty years of widowhood and of seeing Stein's unpublished works into print.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

She made Alice Toklas and her American nephew Allan Stein her joint-executors, and authorized them for the rest of Alice's life to make payments to [Alice Toklas] from the principal of [GS 's] Estate...

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.

Written as early as 1911, Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein is also known as G. M. P.It first appeared from Plain Edition , a publishing house Alice Toklas established for the purpose of publishing Stein's work.

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 .

GS had her poem separately reprinted by Alice Toklas with Plain Edition because she was unhappy with the manner in which Hugnet had set her translation in his book.She felt that she had done him...

GS and Alice Toklas travelled from Paris to London, where they were brought into contact with the Bloomsbury group.