Mabel Dodge

Toklas, who had come to Paris with a friend after the earthquake in San Francisco, met Stein at Michael and Sally Stein 's salon. Stein had already known a little about Toklas from reading...

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...

Several women writers were numbered among DHL 's friends and acquaintances: Amy Lowell , Katherine Mansfield , Anna Wickham , Lady Cynthia Asquith , Carrington , Brett , Catherine Carswell , and Lady Ottoline Morrell

GS began her period of portraiture around 1908. Her portraits resembled biographical sketches but they were usually more impressionistic than factual.She thought that this genre allowed her to capture the immediacy of characters and to...