• A Partially Preserved Night at the Opera

    In 1934, Gertrude Stein visited America for the first time in over two decades. No longer the failed medical student and confused young woman she had been when she left in 1903, she was a renowned author invited to give lectures nationwide. During this tour, organized upon the publication of her popular memoir The Autobiography of Read more

  • “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. Read more

  • 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 Read more