She described her six-month visit in a second memoir, Everybody’s Autobiography. Her inheritance was enough for her to live comfortably. She offered for sale at her 1913 exhibition an issue of the magazine Art and Decoration, which contained an article in which Dodge compared Stein’s writing to Picasso’s cubism. When Dodge moved to New York, she was instrumental in bringing modern art to the American public. The women last had contact in 1934. The monumental artistic movement that changed poetry forever. Stein spent her infancy in Vienna and in Passy, France, and her girlhood in Oakland, Calif. She entered the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women (renamed Radcliffe College in 1894), where she studied psychology with the philosopher William James and received her degree in 1898. Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Lee Ann Brown, Bob Perelman, and Jerome Rothenberg. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gertrude-Stein, Poetry Foundation - Biography of Gertrude Stein, Modern American Poetry - Biography of Gertrude Stein, Jewish Virtual Library - Biography of Gertrude Stein, Academy of American Poets - Biography of Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). When she was six months old, her family went to Europe: first Vienna, then to Paris. Her tour completed, Stein returned to France where she remained for the rest of her life, though she moved from Paris to a village near the Swiss border during World War II. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas recounts Stein’s experiences in the colorful art world of Paris between the world wars. After the war, it was Gertrude Stein who coined the phrase "lost generation" to describe the disenchanted English and American expatriates who were part of the circle centered around Stein. In addition to writing books, Stein also contributed librettos to several operas by Virgil Thompson, notably Four Saints in Three Acts and The Mother of Us All.
The Making of Americans, a long composition written in 1906–11 but not published until 1925, was too convoluted and obscure for general readers, for whom she remained essentially the author of such lines as “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” Her only book to reach a wide public was The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), actually Stein’s own autobiography. Why Gertrude Stein didn’t like this likeness, or likenesses, for that matter. She also, at age 29, dedicated herself in earnest to her writing. Thomson also wrote the music for her second opera, The Mother of Us All (published 1947), based on the life of feminist Susan B. Anthony. “Tender Buttons is to writing … exactly, what cubism is to art,” wrote W.G. Two collections of Stein’s work were published as Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903-1932 and Gertrude Stein: Writings 1932-1946. Not trusting narration to convey the complexity of human behavior, Stein employed description to achieve what she called “a continuous present.” She compared the technique to a motion picture camera, which freezes action into separate frames. She is a former faculty member of the Humanist Institute. Yet, remembering especially her early work, we are still always aware of her presence in the background of contemporary literature.”