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Gertrude Stein

Female : Writer and novelist, poet and literary experimentalist. Lesbian. Moved to France 1903 and spent rest of her life with Alice B Toklas from 1907. Friend of Picasso & Braque
Nationality : American Place of Birth : Allegheny, Pennsylvania

Date of Birth : 1874 Date of Death : 1946 Age : 72

Education : Radcliffe College & John Hopkins Medical School
1904-1920
Three Lives : Stories of the Good Anna, Melanctha and the Gentle Lena
(1904-5) (1909 Grafton Press NY) - 1000
(1909 John Lane Us) - 300 (1920 Bodley Head)
The Making of Americans
(1906-8) (1925 Contact editions, Paris / Three Mountains Press - 500)
(1934 Harcourt Brace)
Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia
(1912 Tip. Galileiana, Florence)

1921-1930
Geography and Plays
(1922 Four Seas, Boston)
Composition as Explanation
(1926 Hogarth Press)
A Book Concluding As a Wife As a Cow : A Love Story
(1926 Galerie Simon, Paris)
+ 10 signed on Vellum
An Elucidation
(1927)
A Village Are You Ready Yet Not Yet
(1928 Editions de la Galerie Simon, Paris) - 90 signed
An Acquaintance with description
(1929 Seizin Press, Hammersmith)
Lucy Church Amiably
(1930 Imprimerie Union,Paris)
Dix Portraits
(1930 Editions de la Montagne, Paris) - 502

1931-1940
How to Write
(1931 Plain Edition, Paris) - Ltd Ed 1000
Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded
(1931 Paris)
Operas and Plays
(1932 Plain Edition, Paris)
The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas
(1933 Literary Guild,NY)
(1933 Harcourt Brace) (1933 John Lane, BH)
Four Saints in Three Acts
(1934 RH)
Portraits and Prayers
(1934 Random House) - 1800
Lectures in America
(1935 Random House, NY)
Narration : Four Lectures
(1935 Chicago Univ Press) - 120 signed by Stein & Thornton Wilder
Everybody's Autobiography
(1937 Random House) (1938 Heinemann)
Picasso
(1938 Librairie Floury, Paris) (1938 Batsford)
Everybody's Castle
(1938 Heinemann)
The World is Round
(1939 William R Scott, NY) (1939 Batsford) - F Rose
What are Masterpieces
(1940 Conference Press)
Paris France
(1940 Scribner) (1940 Batsford)

1941-1960
Wars I Have Seen
(1945 Random House) (1945 Batsford) - d/w by Cecil Beaton
Brewsie and Willie
(1946 Random House)
The First Reader & Three Plays
(1946 Maurice Fridberg, Dublin & London)
(1948 Houghton Mifflin) - Francis Rose
In Savoy or Yes is for a Very Young Man
(1946 The Pushkin Press, London)
Selected Writings
(1946 NY)
Four in America
(1947 Yale UP)
Blood on the Dining Room Floor
(1948 Banyan Press, Vermont) - 600
Last Operas and Plays
(1949 Rinehart,NY)
Things as they Are
(1950 The Banyan Press, Pawlet, Vermont) - 516
Two : Gertrude Stein and Her Brother and Other Early Portraits
(1951 Yale UP)
Mrs Reynolds and Five Earlier Novelettes
(1952 Yale UP)
Bee Time & Other Pieces
(1953 Yale Univ Press)
Stanzas in Meditation & other Poems
(1956 Yale UP)
Alphabets and Birthdays
(1957 Yale UP)
On Our Way
(1959 NY) - 100. with Alice B Toklas

After 1961
The Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
(1962 Random House) - Edited by Carl Van Vechten
Writings and Lectures 1911-1945
(1967 Peter Owen)
Narration
(1969 Chicago Univ Press)
A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein
(1971 Black Sparrow Press) - 500
Reflections on the Atomic Bomb
(Uncollected Writings Vol 1) (1973 BSP)
How Writing is Written
(Uncollected Writings Vol 2) (1974 BSP)
Dear Sammy
(1977 Houghton Mifflin) - letters from Stein to Toklas
Quod Erat Demonstrandum
(written 1903 but publ posthumously as - Things As They Are)
Useful Knowledge
(nd. John Lane, Bodley Head)

READING
W G Rogers : When This You See Remember Me - Gertrude Stein in Person
(1948 Rinehart, NY)
Donald Sutherland : Gertrude Stein - A Biography of Her Work
(1951 Yale UP)
Elizabeth Sprigge : Gertrude Stein - A Study
(1956 Hamish hamilton 25/-)
Robert A Wilson : A Bibliography of Gertrude Stein
(1974)
James Mellow : Charmed Circle - Gertude Stein and Company
(1974 Praeger, NY)
Renate Stendhal : Gertrude Stein in Words and Pictures
(1995 T & H £14.95)
Linda Wagner-Martin : Favoured Strangers - Gertrude Stein & Her Family
(1995 Rutgers $34.95)
(Eds) E M Burns, U E Dydo, with W Rice : The Letters of Gertrude Stein &
Thornton Wilder
(1997 Yale UP £25)