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Chapters: Virginia Woolf, Colette, Gertrude Stein, H.d., Rebecca West, Djuna Barnes, Pool Group, Anne Waldman, Amy Lowell, Susan Howe, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Janet Flanner, Kay Boyle, Bryher, Gunvor Hofmo, Anneli Rufus, Lorine Niedecker, Diane Wakoski, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Grace Andreacchi, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Maxine Chernoff, Fanny Howe, Hilda Morley, Harryette Mullen, Diane Di Prima, Barbara Guest, Madeline Gleason, Dorothy Richardson, Alice Notley, Joanne Kyger, Bernadette Mayer, Kristin Prevallet, Adrienne Monnier, Margery Latimer, Joan Retallack, Tina Darragh, Janine Pommy Vega, Blanaid Salkeld, Eva Figes, Mary Devenport O'neill, Maggie O'sullivan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 249. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 July 27, 1946) was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874-1914, and the second with her partner Alice B. Toklas, from 1907 until Stein's death in 1946. Stein shared her salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice. Throughout her lifetime, Stein also cultivated significant relationships with well-known members of the avant garde artistic and literary world. Stein was gregarious and had a wealth of friends and modern paintings that attracted many to her Paris salon. Her personality also allowed her to transform her social outlets, by focusing on new friendships, members of the youthful generation of the time. For example, Stein was friends with "up and coming" artists Matisse and Picasso in the early 1900s, writers Thornton Wilder and Ernest Hemingway in the 20s, and with the American GIs in the 40s. Each period ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=62004 ... Read more

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