In the story of Ada in Geography and Plays Gertrude Stein has given a very good description of me as I was at that time. From then on for about six years I was well occupied.

In the story Ada in Geography and Plays Gertrude Stein has given a very good description of me as I was at that time. Sponsor Message. From then on for about six years I was well occupied.

Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein walking their poodle, Basket, ... Ada continues: "She came to be happier than anybody else who was living then. It is easy to believe this thing.

The actor David Greenspan is a tour-de-force, taking on all the roles of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson’s large-cast opera from 1934, sans music. By Laura Collins-Hughes One minute the actor ...

But Stein’s meek, self-sacrificing mother, who died when Gertrude was 14, could not contain the domineering temperament of her husband, whose death three years later cast the family adrift.

Gertrude Stein, as Francesca Wade puts it in this masterpiece of biography, was a character of “bewildering contradictions”. Depending on who you spoke to, she was either a genius or a charlatan. A ...

But Gertrude did not hesitate to drag in characters of other eras—notably a pair of folks archly named Gertrude S. and Virgil T. (Gertrude did not look like Miss Stein, nor Virgil like Mr. Thomson).

Stein used the words to explain that the home she grew up in was physically no longer there and that the landscape around it had changed. But these days, it has taken on a different meaning.

Gertrude Stein had family roots in Baltimore and studied medicine at Johns Hopkins for more than three years before dropping out and embarking on a pioneering literary career in Paris for over 40 ...

Gertrude Stein in Circles, exhibition closing event: Friends, Lovers, Rivals, and Comrades Join the Sheridan Libraries & University Museums to mark the closing of Gertrude Stein in Circles: Spheres of ...