Gertrude Stein - Complete Works of Gertrude Stein

The Complete Works of

GERTRUDE STEIN

(1874-1946)

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The Complete Works of

GERTRUDE STEIN

By Delphi Classics, 2017

Complete Works of Gertrude Stein

First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

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Gertrude Steins birthplace and childhood home in Allegheny West, a historic neighbourhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvanias North Side

Victorian housing of Allegheny West

Gertrude Stein as a child

OR, THINGS AS THEY ARE

Q.E.D; or, Things as They Are was completed in the autumn of 1903, but was not published until 1950, four years after the authors death. Stein wrote the novel shortly after she arrived in Paris to live with her brother, Leo. She had attended Radcliffe College during the mid-1890s, where she was a student of the renowned psychologist, William James. He considered her to be highly intelligent and after she graduated in 1898, he encouraged her to attend John Hopkins School of Medicine. However, the author never fully engaged in her studies at medical school and during her fourth year she decided to leave the course. In 1902, she followed Leo to London and they moved to Paris the following year.

Stein reportedly had very little memory of having composed the work and only ever showed the novel to her brother and a handful of her closest friends. Q.E.D is a roman clef , detailing a love triangle and doomed love affair that occurred while she was at John Hopkins. It also explores Steins feelings about her emerging sexuality and her morals on sex and relationships. The work begins with the three main characters getting to know each other on a transatlantic journey, as Adele, a surrogate for the author, falls in love with Helen Thomas, a character based on Mary May Bookstaver a leading feminist and political activist of the time. However, the relationship is disrupted and stymied by Mabel, who becomes a rival for Helens affections. Mabel attempts to use Helens ambition for wealth and material comfort to prevent Helen from committing to Adele.

Gertrude Stein (left back) at Radcliffe College with Harvard Students, c. 1905

The renowned psychologist, William James

PHEBE: Good shepherd, tell this youth what tis to love.

SILVIUS: It is to be all made of sighs and tears; And so am I for Phebe.

PHEBE: And I for Ganymede.

ORLANDO: And I for Rosalind.

ROSALIND: And I for no woman.

SILVIUS: It is to be all made of faith and service; And so am I for Phebe.

PHEBE: And I for Ganymede.

ORLANDO: And I for Rosalind.

ROSALIND: And I for no woman.

SILVIUS: It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes; All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, All purity, all trial, all deservings; And so am I for Phebe.

PHEBE: And so am I for Ganymede.

ORLANDO: And so am I for Rosalind.

ROSALIND: And so am I for no woman.

PHEBE: If this be so, why blame you me to love you?

SILVIUS: If this be so, why blame you me to love you?

ORLANDO: If this be so, why blame you me to love you?

ROSALIND: Who do you speak to, Why blame you me to love you?

ORLANDO: TO her that is not here, nor doth not hear.

ROSALIND: Pray you, no more of this: tis like the howling of Irish wolves against the moon.

AS YOU LIKE IT 5:2

T HE LAST MONTH of Adeles life in Baltimore had been such a succession of wearing experiences that she rather regretted that she was not to have the steamer all to herself. It was very easy to think of the rest of the passengers as mere wooden objects; they were all sure to be of some abjectly familiar type that one knew so well that there would be no need of recognising their existence, but these two people who would be equally familiar if they were equally little known would as the acquaintance progressed, undoubtedly expose large tracts of unexplored and unknown qualities, filled with new and strange excitements. A little knowledge is not a dangerous thing, on the contrary it gives the most cheerful sense of completeness and content.