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Stein, Gertrude

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
1874–1946, American author and patron of the arts, b. Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh), Pa. A celebrated personality, she encouraged, aided, and influenced—through her patronage as well as through her writing—many literary and artistic figures. After attending (1893–97) Radcliffe, where she was a student of William James , she began premedical work at Johns Hopkins. In 1902, relinquishing her studies, she went abroad and from 1903 until her death lived chiefly in Paris. For many years her secretary and lover was Alice B. Toklas. In Paris, Stein became interested in modern art movements; she encouraged and purchased the work of many new painters, including Picasso and Matisse . During the 1920s, she was the leader of a cultural salon that included such writers as Hemingway , Sherwood Anderson , and F. Scott Fitzgerald , all of whose works she influenced. It was she who first coined the phrase “lost generation” for those post–World War I expatriates. During World War II she remained in…
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From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
American writer. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, she spent her early years in Vienna and Paris and then in Oakland and San Francisco. From 1893 to 1897 she studied philosophy and became interested in experimental psychology, before moving on to Johns Hopkins University to do advanced work on brain…
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From The Great American History Fact-Finder
Author. Stein introduced a unique style of writing based on extreme simplification and repetition, illustrated by her famous statement “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” She used little punctuation, believing it distracts the reader, and emphasized sounds of words rather than sense. She was also…
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Full text Article Stein, Gertrude (1874–1946)

From The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
American poet and writer. In the ‘Transatlantic Interview’ (1946), Gertrude Stein insisted that all her poetry was ‘children's poetry’. Clearly, she often experimented with children's genres, such as the alphabet book. Her most famous work for children, The World is Round (1939), experiments with…
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Full text Article Stein, Gertrude (1874–1946)

From The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry
Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania and educated at Radcliffe College and Johns Hopkins University, Stein was an American modernist writer of novels, essays, plays, poetry, and libretti. In 1902, she moved to Paris, France, where she spent the rest her life with her partner Alice Toklas. A collector, …
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From The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance
American writer. A central presence in modernism, Stein applied principles of fragmentation and simultaneity gathered from *Picasso and Braque to theatre. Her 77 ‘plays’ and *‘operas’ (bearing no *character names or distinctions between stage direction, *dialogue , or texts for singing) were…
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Full text Article STEIN, GERTRUDE (1874–1946)

From Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements
An art collector, writer, and poet, Stein grew up in Oakland, California, and left for France in 1903, with her brother Leo. It was in Paris that she met her lifelong companion, Alice B. Toklas (1877–1967). They remained in France until their deaths and are buried in a joint plot in Père Lachaise…
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US writer, influential in the development of Modernism. She settled in Paris in 1903, where with her friend Alice B Toklas she dominated expatriate life. Her less experimental works include The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and Everybody’s Autobiography (1937). You are so afraid of losing…
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Full text Article STEIN, Gertrude (1874–1946)

From The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
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Full text Article Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

From The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
A novelist, essayist, playwright, and poet, Gertrude Stein is chiefly remembered today for coining the term “The Lost Generation”; for her Paris salon of the 1920s, where she encouraged and aided such literary and artistic greats as Hemingway and Picasso; for the line “Rose is a rose is a rose is a…
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