Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Hobhouse, Janet

Everybody who was anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein / Janet Hobhouse - New York G. P. Putnam's Sons 1975 - xii, 244 p.

Being the youngest --
Knowledge is what you know --
What are masterpieces? --
Grammar is as disappointed --
The last nineteenth-century war --
Since nice young men --
Saints and landscapes --
Remarks are not literature --
La Gloire --
Altogether too much fathering going on --
A small hard reality.

Gertrude Stein was born in 1874 and soon became aware that she was destined to 'create the twentieth century'. Reviews the legendary expatriate American writer, art collector, and saloniste, exploring her public and private endeavors, her relationships with family, friends, and fellow artists, and her impact on twentieth-century art and literature. Bibliog.

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Stein, Gertrude 1874-1946


Authors, American --20th century
Art Collectors and collecting --France, Paris
Americans --France, Paris--20th century

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