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
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American writer Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was a powerful literary force in the period around World War I. Although the ultimate value of her writing was a matter of debate, in its time it profoundly ...
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"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...
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Just 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 wide-ranging, her work ...
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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...
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In his introduction to Gertrude Stein's Four in America (1947) Thornton Wilder observed:She knew that she was a difficult and an idiosyncratic author. She pursued her aims, however, with such convict...
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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...
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Three Lives
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
