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Legally, the 0.7-ounce bottle of liqueur is not a beverage, but it is an increasingly popular drink in bars and taprooms.
ertrude Stein is, famously, one of those authors whose name is better known than her works. This was so during her lifetime, as the biographer Francesca Wade demonstrates in her readable and ...
By the time Stein landed in the United States—her first trip back after leaving for Paris in 1903—she was already a household name. Her route to recognition had been an unlikely one. Stein’s ...
Heavily pomaded to stick up at either side into long, thin points, Dalí’s mustache was voted the Most Famous Mustache of All Time in a Telegraph survey for Movember in 2010. Gertrude Stein once ...
When Gertrude Stein’s friend and Paris neighbour Pablo Picasso completed her portrait in 1906, she was 32 and yet to be celebrated as the American expatriate avant-garde author, salon-leader ...
Toklas had discovered a manuscript of Stein’s first novel QED (1903) and found out, for the first time, about May Bookstaver, with whom a youthful Stein was embroiled in a years-long love triangle.
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 ...
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 ...
In 1903, Stein followed her older brother Leo to Paris and never looked back. In a way, her Baltimore circle helped her take up her famous role as linchpin of a Parisian circle of modern artists. In ...
In conjunction with the current Sheridan Libraries exhibition Gertrude Stein in Circles: Spheres of Life and Writing, join Stein scholars Phoebe Stein, a distant cousin, and Gabrielle Dean for an ...
Much has been written about this house in the memoirs of various French and international artists and writers in the 1910s-30s of the 1907th century. It resembled a hive of bees, the queen of which ...