Three Lives Summary
Gertrude Stein

Part I The tradesmen of Bridgepoint learned to dread the sound of “Miss Mathilda”, for with that name the good Anna always conquered. The strictest of the one price stores found that they ... Read more

Biography EssayJust as the postimpressionists and cubists made us see paint and then made us see painting, Gertrude Stein made us see words and then made us see writing. Immensely various and widerang... Read more

"It was not what France gave you but what it did not take away from you that was important," Gertrude Stein once remarked by way of explaining her long-term residence in Paris. She had found in the Fr... Read more

Gertrude Stein, who lived and wrote as though she knew she would be legendary, is more than that now: she is an icon. The image of Stein, sitting under the Picasso portrait of her in the living room a... Read more

In the following review, the critic finds Three Lives difficult but rewarding and notes that Stein shows great promise as a writer. These stories [in Three Lives] of the Good Anna, Melanctha, and t... Read more

In the following essay, Wood considers Three Lives as a conscious literary homage to the French Romantic ironist Jules Laforgue. The epigraph at the beginning of Gertrude Stein's first publi... Read more

In the following essay, Rose considers Three Lives as a “verbal portrait” in the style of cubist narrative. “… If it were possible that a movement were lively enough it ... Read more

In the following essay, Dunn studies Three Lives and H. D.'s Palimpsest for evidence of their authors breaking through literary gender barriers. In her recent book concerning narrative strat... Read more