Figure 1. Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein, and Harold McCormick at the opening of Four Saints in Three Acts, performed by the Chicago Opera Company, November 7, 1934. Unknown photographer for the Chicago American newspaper. Robert A. Wilson Collection, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University. In 1934, Gertrude Stein visited America for the first time in … Continue reading A Partially Preserved Night at the Opera
“Saving the Sentence”: How to Write like Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein is perhaps best known for three things: her flair as an art collector, her authorship, and the company she kept. This set of page proofs from the Robert A. Wilson Collection of Gertrude Stein Materials at Johns Hopkins University's Sheridan Libraries exemplifies who Gertrude Stein was as an author: a force of nature. … Continue reading “Saving the Sentence”: How to Write like Gertrude Stein
19 Years in 5 Letters: Mabel Foote Weeks’s Letters to Gertrude Stein
Interesting insights into Gertrude Stein’s life and later reception are apparent in five carbon copies of letters Mabel Foote Weeks wrote to Stein between 1901 and 1920. Weeks met Stein when the two attended Radcliffe College (then called the Harvard Annex). Though Weeks graduated in 1894, she and Stein kept in touch after Stein moved … Continue reading 19 Years in 5 Letters: Mabel Foote Weeks’s Letters to Gertrude Stein
CURATING GERTRUDE STEIN 