The film adaptation of her Booker-nominated novel is the latest step in extraordinary revival and flowering of the writer’s ...

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Stein’s struggles were amplified by Joyce’s triumphs – but they both shared an artistic vision Gertrude Stein at her desk in Paris in the 1930s. Photo: Getty James Joyce and Gertrude Stein ...

Friends had often expressed scepticism of Stein and Toklas’s closeness. Some were incredulous at how totally Stein dominated her, while others suspected Toklas had run the show all along.

She and Toklas were on the road (and in the air, as they took their first aeroplane) for seven months and took in 37 states. “Gertrude Stein has arrived,” announced the ticker tape in New York to ...

“Gertrude Stein Has Arrived”, read the tickertape snaking around the New York Times building, flashing breaking news to all who passed through Times Square. Over seven months, starting in October 1934 ...

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.

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 ...

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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas It was love at first sight between Gertrude Stein, 33, and Alice Babette Toklas, 29, in Paris in 1907. Like many great lovers, they met by accident.