In May 1898, after completing a Latin requirement, GS
graduated magna cum laude in philosophy from Radcliffe College
. She was now fully qualified for admission to Johns Hopkins
.
Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press, 1995.
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Though Johns Hopkins had...
Literary responses
Denise Levertov
Among much critical comment on her, Linda Wagner-Martin
edited and published by autumn 1979 a book of essays entitled Denise Levertov: In Her Own Province.
Book Review Index. Gale Research.
4: 3080
The immense respect accorded in her early...
Reception
Sylvia Plath
SP
's literary reputation also grew. Ariel had great success and by 1981 at least 150,000 copies of it had been printed in England.There was also an American edition.
Tabor, Stephen. Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography. Meckler, 1987.
20-2
Posthumous editions of Colossus and...
Textual Features
Gertrude Stein
Ada is one of GS
's earliest portraits: it is of Alice Toklas
, and celebrates their loving union.
Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley, 1959.
146-7
What Happened? A Five Act Play, written in 1913, is GS
's first play....
Timeline
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Texts
Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press, 1995.
Wagner-Martin, Linda. “Stein’s Life and Career”. Modern American Poetry.
Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath: A Biography. Simon and Schuster, 1987.
Wagner-Martin, Linda. Telling Women’s Lives: the New Biography. Rutgers University Press, 1994.
Davidson, Cathy N., and Linda Wagner-Martin, editors. The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States. Oxford University Press, 1995.