Title: "Favored strangers" : Gertrude Stein and her family /
Authors: Wagner-Martin, Linda
Publisher: Rutgers University Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Stein, Gertrude, Family.; Stein, Gertrude, Friends and associates.; Stein family.; Women authors, American Family relationships.; Women authors, American Biography.; Americans France Paris History; Families United States History; Art Collectors and collecting Biography.; Lesbians France Paris Biography.; Homosexuality, Female history; Women history; Literature; Paris (France) Intellectual life
Abstract: Inspired by extensive original research, Linda Wagner-Martin breaks with tradition in this major new biography. Here we find Gertrude Stein as we have never seen her before: as a member of her German-Jewish patriarchal family, as an undergraduate at Radcliffe, as an odd sort of feminist, as a medical student at Johns Hopkins University, as a lesbian and a lover, as an art collector, as a war survivor, and much more - as a person and not just a modernist icon. Throughout, her relationship with two of her older brothers - Michael and Leo - shaped her emotional existence, just as her commitment to writing shaped her intellectual life.