Alice B. Toklas

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...

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)

After a visit to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in the French Alps, LR and Robert Graves arrived on the island of Mallorca, where they settled in the village of Deyá in a...

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...

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

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.