Author: joeliejean

My sister recently published a novel and has spent the last two years learning the skills required for self-publication: editing, formatting, marketing, and more. After witnessing my sister’s escapades, I was interested in exploring Gertrude Stein’s own experiences with publishing her works. Between the years 1931 and 1933, Stein published five books with her partner … Continue reading The Invisible Collaboration Behind the Plain Edition

While exploring Gertrude Stein’s published works in the Robert A. Wilson collection, I found that Stein was featured in four issues of Broom: An International Magazine Of The Arts. Three of these issues contain parts of Stein’s “If You Had Three Husbands”, published throughout January, April, and June of 1922. In addition, Broom published Stein’s … Continue reading How Gertrude Stein and Other Female Artists Were Able to Find a Publishing Platform After WWI

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