Lucy Daniel - Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein by Mina Loy is reprinted courtesy of Roger L. Conover, Mina Loys editor and literary executor. Extract from Gertrude Steins autobiographical notes for Geography and Plays, the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates, and by kind permission of the Estate of Gertrude Stein through its Literary Executor, Mr Stanford Gann, Jr, of Levin & Gann, PA.

I would like to thank the British Academy for financial support in the making of this book. Thanks also to Kasia Boddy, Ros Coward, Ann Fraser, Rowland Hughes, Cathryn Stone and Paul Vlitos, and thank you above all to Terry Daniel and Annette Daniel, and to Jos Enrique Martinez Yabar.

Writing, posed in front of her portrait, 1914, photographed by Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Three Lives (New York, 1909)

Tender Buttons (New York, 1914)

Geography and Plays (Boston, 1922)

The Making of Americans (Paris, 1925)

Composition as Explanation (London, 1926)

Useful Knowledge (New York, 1928)

Lucy Church Amiably (Paris, 1930)

Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded (Paris, 1931)

How to Write (Paris, 1931)

Operas and Plays (Paris, 1932)

Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein with Two Shorter Stories (Paris, 1933)

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (New York, 1933)

Four Saints in Three Acts (New York, 1934)

Portraits and Prayers (New York, 1934)

Lectures in America (New York, 1935)

Narration (Chicago, IL, 1935)

The Geographical History of America (New York, 1936)

Everybodys Autobiography (New York, 1937)

Picasso (London, 1938)

The World Is Round (New York, 1939)

Paris France (London, 1938)

What Are Masterpieces (Los Angeles, CA, 1940)

Ida a Novel (New York, 1941)

Wars I Have Seen (New York, 1945)

Brewsie and Willie (New York, 1946)

Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, edited with an introduction and notes by Carl Van Vechten (New York, 1946)

In Savoy or Yes Is for a Very Young Man (London, 1946)

Four in America (New Haven, CT, 1947)

Blood on the Dining Room Floor (Pawlet, VT, 1948)

Last Operas and Plays (New York, 1949)

Two (Gertrude Stein and Her Brother) and Other Early Portraits (19081912), vol. I of Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein (New Haven, CT, 1951)

Mrs Reynolds and Five Earlier Novelettes (19311942), vol. II of Yale Edition ofthe Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein (New Haven, CT, 1952)

Bee Time Vine and Other Pieces (19131927), vol. III of Yale Edition of theUnpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein (New Haven, CT, 1953)

As Fine as Melanctha (19141930), vol. IV of Yale Edition of the UnpublishedWritings of Gertrude Stein (New Haven, CT, 1954)

Painted Lace and Other Pieces (19141937), vol. V of Yale Edition of theUnpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein (New Haven, CT, 1955)

Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems (19291933), vol. VI of Yale Edition ofthe Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein (New Haven, CT, 1956)

Alphabets and Birthdays, vol. VII of Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings ofGertrude Stein (New Haven, CT, 1957)

A Novel of Thank You, vol. VIII of Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings ofGertrude Stein (New Haven, CT, 1958)

Fernhurst, QED, and Other Early Writings by Gertrude Stein, ed. Leon Katz (New York, 1971)

Look At Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures 190945, ed. Patricia Meyerowitz (New York, 1971)

A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein, ed. Robert Bartlett Haas (Los Angeles, CA, 1971)

Reflections on the Atomic Bomb, vol. I of the Previously Uncollected Writings ofGertrude Stein (Los Angeles, CA, 1973)

How Writing Is Written, vol. II of the Previously Uncollected Writings ofGertrude Stein, ed. Robert Bartlett Haas (Los Angeles, CA, 1974)

A Stein Reader, ed. Ulla E. Dydo (Evanston, IL, 1993)

Armstrong, Tim, Modernism, Technology and the Body: A Cultural Study (Cambridge, 1998)

Bay-Cheng, Sarah, Mama Dada: Gertrude Steins Avant-Garde Theater (New York, 2004)

Berry, Ellen E., Curved Thought and Textual Wandering: Gertrude SteinsPostmodernism (Ann Arbor, MI, 1992)

Bloom, Harold, ed., Modern Critical Views: Gertrude Stein (New York, 1986)

Bowers, Jane Palatini, They Watch Me as They Watch This: Gertrude SteinsMetadrama (Philadelphia, PA, 1991)

Bridgman, Richard, Gertrude Stein in Pieces (New York, 1970)

Brinnin, John Malcolm, The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World (Boston, MA, 1959)

Burns, Edward, ed., Gertrude Stein Issue, Twentieth Century Literature, XXIV/1 (Spring 1978)

Caramello, Charles, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act (Chapel Hill, NC, 1996)

Chessman, Harriet Scott, The Public Is Invited to Dance: Representation, theBody, and Dialogue in Gertrude Stein (Stanford, CA, 1989)

Curnutt, Kirk, ed., The Critical Response to Gertrude Stein (Westport, CT, 2000)

Damon, Maria, The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American VanguardPoetry (Minneapolis, MN, 1993)

, Gertrude Steins Jewishness, Jewish Social Scientists, and the Jewish Question, Modern Fiction Studies, XLII/3 (Fall 1996), pp. 489506

Dearborn, Mary V., Gertrude Steins The Making of Americans as an Ethnic Text, in Pocahontass Daughters: Gender and Ethnicity in AmericanCulture (New York, 1986), pp. 15993

Dekoven, Marianne, A Different Language: Gertrude Steins ExperimentalWriting (Madison, WI, 1983)

Doane, Janice, Silence and Narrative: The Early Novels of Gertrude Stein (Westport, CT, 1986)

Dydo, Ulla E., with William Rice, The Language that Rises 19231934 (Evanston, IL, 2003)

Fifer, Elizabeth, Rescued Readings: A Reconstruction of Gertrude SteinsDifficult Texts (Detroit, MI, 1992)

Giroud, Vincent, Picasso and Gertrude Stein (New Haven, CT, 2006)

Hejinian, Lyn, Two Stein Talks, Three Lives and A Common Sense, in The Language of Inquiry (Berkeley, CA, 2000)

Hobhouse, Janet, Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of GertrudeStein (New York, 1975)

Hoffman, Michael J., ed., Critical Essays on Gertrude Stein (Boston, MA, 1986)

, The Development of Abstractionism in the Writings of Gertrude Stein (Philadelphia, PA, 1965)

, ed., Gertrude Stein (Boston, MA, 1976)

Katz, Leon, The First Making of The Making of Americans: A Study Based on Gertrude Steins Notebooks and Early Versions of her Novel (19028), PhD dissertation, Columbia University (1963)

Kellner, Bruce, ed., A Gertrude Stein Companion: Content with the Example (New York, 1988)

Kostelanetz, Richard, Gertrude Stein Advanced: An Anthology of Criticism (Jefferson, NC, 1990)

Malcolm, Janet, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice