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Favored strangers : Gertrude Stein and her family / Linda Wagner-Martin.
Van Pelt Library PS3537.T323 Z87 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wagner-Martin, Linda.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946--Family.
- Stein, Gertrude.
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946--Friends and associates.
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.
- Women authors, American--20th century--Family relationships.
- Women authors, American.
- Women authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Families.
- Friends and associates.
- Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Paris (France).
- Americans--France--Paris--History--20th century.
- Americans.
- France--Paris.
- History.
- Families--United States--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Art--Collectors and collecting--Biography.
- Art.
- Art--Collectors and collecting.
- Lesbians--France--Paris--Biography.
- Lesbians.
- Stein family.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1995]
- Summary:
- Inspired by extensive original research, Linda Wagner-Martin breaks with tradition in this major new biography. Here we find Gertrude Stein as we have never seen her before: as a member of her German-Jewish patriarchal family, as an undergraduate at Radcliffe, as an odd sort of feminist, as a medical student at Johns Hopkins University, as a lesbian and a lover, as an art collector, as a war survivor, and much more - as a person and not just a modernist icon. Throughout, her relationship with two of her older brothers - Michael and Leo - shaped her emotional existence, just as her commitment to writing shaped her intellectual life. This fascinating portrait of Gertrude Stein's life (1874-1946) offers a rich history of "The Stein Corporation". Wagner-Martin provides new insight into the influence of Alice B. Toklas, a look into the economic side of the family's existence, and the intimate story of the Steins' relationships with Matisse, Picasso, Gris, and other painters; and later, of Gertrude Stein's relationships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Virgil Thomson, Thornton Wilder, Janet Flanner, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and many other colorful modernist writers and artists in the rue de Fleurus salon. This biography also gives us a previously untold but chilling account of Gertrude Stein's and Alice Toklas's survival during World War II in France, and Leo Stein's in Italy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-330) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813521696
- OCLC:
- 31412160
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