Title: Three Lives
First published: January 25, 1979
Description: Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realistic depictions of immigrant women who had no occupational choice but to become domestic workers. This collection of documents from the history of women's suffrage, medical history, modernist art, and literature enables readers to see how radical Stein's subject was.
Subjects: Fiction, Working class women, Working class women in fiction, Working class women in literature, Women, Women in fiction, Short Stories, Classics, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, historical, general, Interpersonal relations, American literature, Criticism and interpretation
People: Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)