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Gertrude Stein (Critical Lives) (28 page)
18
See Nancy Leys Stepan and Sander L. Gilman, ‘Appropriating the Idioms of Science: The Rejection of Scientific Racism’,
The Bounds of
Race: Perspectives on Hegemony and Resistance
, ed. Dominick LaCapra (Ithaca, NY, 1991), pp. 72–103.
19
Meyer,
Irresistible Dictation
, p. 221.
20
Quoted in
Newsweek
, 8 December 1934, p. 24.
21
Gertrude Stein, ‘A Transatlantic Interview 1946’, in
A Primer for the
Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein
, ed. Robert Bartlett Haas (Los Angeles, CA, 1971), p. 18.
22
Gertrude Stein,
Narration: Four Lectures
(Westport, CT, 1969), p. 15.
23
James R. Mellow,
Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company
(New York, 1974), p. 33.
24
Meyer,
Irresistible Dictation
, p. xvii.
25
Ibid., p. xxi.
26
Gertrude Stein, ‘Possessive Case’, in
As Fine as Melanctha
(1914–1930), vol. IV of
The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein
(New Haven, CT, 1954), p. 144.
27
See Wineapple,
Sister Brother
, p. 81. See also Armstrong,
Modernism,
Technology, and the Body
, p. 199, for a discussion of Stein’s ‘distracted writing’.
28
Quoted in Meyer,
Irresistible Dictation
, p. xv.
29
Gertrude Stein, ‘Ocean Symphony’, in Miller,
Gertrude Stein
, p. 121.
30
Stein,
Selected Writings
, p. 74.
31
Gertrude Stein,
Lectures in America
(New York, 1975), p. 137.
32
Laura Marcus,
Auto/biographical Discourses: Criticism, Theory, Practice
(Manchester, 1994), p. 67.
33
See Wineapple,
Sister Brother
, pp. 103–4.
34
Gertrude Stein, ‘The Value of College Education for Women’, in Wineapple,
Sister Brother
, p. 105.
35
Stein,
The Making of Americans
(Normal, IL, 1995), p. 783.
36
Ibid., p. 349.
37
Stein’s description for the dust jacket of
Geography and Plays
(Boston, MA, 1922).
38
Meyer,
Irresistible Dictation
, p. 79.
39
Lewellys F. Barker,
The Nervous System and Its Constituent Neurones
(New York, 1899), pp. 725–6.
40
Stein,
The Making of Americans
, p. 375.
41
Lewellys F. Barker,
Time and the Physician
(New York, 1942), p. 60.
42
Bender,
The Descent of Love
, pp. 156–8. Bender concentrates on William Dean Howell’s
Dr Breen’s Practice
(1881), Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s
Dr
Zay
(1882), Sarah Orne Jewett’s
A Country Doctor
, and Henry James’s
The Bostonians
(1886).
43
Wineapple’s chronology of the events of Stein’s student years, and her self-perception at the time, informs my reading of them here. See
Sister Brother
, pp. 123–31; 140–44; 149–51.
44
Stein,
Selected Writings
, p. 77.
45
See Wineapple,
Sister Brother
, p. 141.
46
Stein,
Selected Writings
, p. 78.
47
Stein,
Everybody’s Autobiography
(New York, 1937), p. 264.
48
‘Then they make a baby to make for themselves a new beginning and so win for themselves a new everlasting feeling.’ Stein,
Lectures in
America
, p. 150. See Meyer,
Irresistible Dictation
, p. 210.
49
This essay, probably written between October 1901 and early 1902, was discovered and attributed to Stein by Brenda Wineapple; see Wineapple,
Sister Brother
, pp. 409–14. See also Wineapple’s commentary on the essay, pp. 152–4.
50
Of course Stein was not alone in linking the decadent and the New Woman. See Linda Dowling, ‘The Decadent and the New Woman in the 1890s’,
Nineteenth Century Fiction
, XXXIII/4 (1979), pp. 434–53.
51
Wineapple,
Sister Brother
, p. 123.
52
Ibid., p. 413.
53
Ibid., p. 154.
54
Ibid., p. 181.
55
These recollections are quoted by Meyer,
Irresistible Dictation
, p. 86.
56
Stein,
Selected Writings
, p. 77.
57
Ibid., p. 78.
58
Edmund Wilson,
Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New
York
(London, 1972), p. 63.
59
Gertrude Stein,
Fernhurst, QED, and Other Early Writings by Gertrude
Stein
, ed. Leon Katz (New York, 1971), p. 102.
60
Ibid., p. 58.
61
Ibid., p. 100.
62
Leon Katz, introduction to Stein,
Fernhurst, QED, and Other Early
Writings
, p. xviii.
63
Gertrude Stein, ‘Why do Americans Live in Europe?’,
Transition
, XIV (1928), pp. 97–8.
64
Gertrude Stein, ‘The Making of Americans’, in
Fernhurst, QED, and
Other Early Writings
, p. 153.
1
Robert McAlmon and Kay Boyle,
Being Geniuses Together
(London, 1970 ), p. 241.
2
Leon Katz was the first to explore Stein’s depression, in his doctoral thesis on
The Making of Americans,
‘The First Making of
The Making of
Americans
: A Study Based on Gertrude Stein’s Notebooks and Early Versions of Her Novel (1902–8)’, PhD dissertation, Columbia University (1963). Although unpublished, his thesis has been a fount of information for Stein critics. Some of his points about the affair with May Bookstaver and Stein’s state of mind at this time are reiterated in his introduction to
QED
. See Gertrude Stein,
Fernhurst, QED, and
Other Early Writings by Gertrude Stein
, ed. Leon Katz (New York, 1971).
3
Stein,
Fernhurst, QED, and Other Early Writings
, p. 19.
4
Shari Benstock,
Women of the Left Bank: Paris 1900–1940
(London, 1987 ), p. 178.
5
Stein,
Fernhurst, QED, and Other Early Writings
, p. 80.
6
Benstock,
Women of the Left Bank
, p. 189.
7
James R. Mellow,
Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company
(New York, 1974), p. 4.
8
Maurice Grosser, ‘Maurice Grosser on Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas’, in
The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable
Friendships
, ed. Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein (New York, 2006 ), p. 154.
9
‘Removed from [the American] literary heritage, Stein did not suffer an anxiety of influence.’ Benstock,
Women of the Left Bank
, p. 192. See also p. 149 on Stein’s domestic situation.
10
Ibid., p. 47.
11
Paul Bowles,
Without Stopping: An Autobiography
(London, 1972), p. 119.
12
Brenda Wineapple,
Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein
(London, 1997 ), p. 139.
13
Stein,
Fernhurst, QED, and Other Early Writings
, p. 34.
14
Ibid., p. 29.
15
Gertrude Stein,
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
(New York, 1972), p. 42.
16
Ibid., p. 117.
17
Ibid., p. 50.
18
John Richardson,
A Life of Picasso
(London, 1996), vol. I, p. 396.
19
Gertrude Stein,
Picasso
(London, 1946), p. 18.
20
Stein,
Selected Writings
, p. 42.
21
See Benstock,
Women of the Left Bank
, p. 153.
22
Stein,
Selected Writings
, p. 47.
23
Janet Hobhouse,
Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude
Stein
(London, 1975), p. 49.
24
Quoted in Mellow,
Charmed Circle
, p. 97.
25
Mabel Dodge Luhan,
European Experiences
(New York, 1935), p. 324.
26
Stein,
Selected Writings
, p. 66.
27
Ibid., p. 49.
28
Richardson,
A Life of Picasso
, vol. I, p. 455.
29
Stein,
Selected Writings
, p. 12.
30
Stein,
Picasso
, p. 8.
31
Stein,
Selected Writings
, p. 43.
32
Janet Flanner, ‘Memory Is All: Alice B. Toklas’, in
The Literature of
Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall
, ed. Terry Castle (New York, 2003), p. 1073.
33
Richardson,
A Life of Picasso
, vol. I, p. 409.
34
Stein,
Selected Writings
, p. 22.
35
Richardson,
A Life of Picasso
, vol. II, p. 223.
36
Stein,
Selected Writings
, p. 31.
37
Mabel Dodge Luhan reproduced a letter from Stein in which she tells this story in the third volume of her memoirs,
Movers and Shakers
(New York, 1936), p. 33.
38
Edmund Wilson, ‘Nonsense’,
The New Republic
, 20 February 1929. Reproduced in Kirk Curnutt, ed.,
The Critical Response to Gertrude
Stein
(Westport, CT, 2000), p. 46.
39
See Richard Bridgman,
Gertrude Stein in Pieces
(New York, 1970), pp. 47–52.
40
Richard Wright, ‘Gertrude Stein’s Story Is Drenched in Hitler’s Horrors’,
PM
, 11 March 1945, p. 15.
41
Claude McKay,
A Long Way from Home
(New York, 1970), p. 248.
42
Stein,
Selected Writings
, pp. 63; 46.
43
Quoted in Wineapple,
Sister Brother
, p. 235.
44
Stein,
Fernhurst, QED, and Other Early Writings
, p. 57.
45
There is also the sense of Pound’s ‘tale of the tribe’, the phrase used in
Guide to Kulchur
to describe the
Cantos
.
46
For example, these were terms Robert McAlmon used in a contemporary review of her work, ‘The Legend of Gertrude Stein’, which appeared in
Outlook
and was reproduced in McAlmon and Boyle,
Being Geniuses Together
, p. 207.
47
Michael North,
The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language and
Twentieth-Century Literature
(New York, 1994), pp. 59–76.
48
See Janice L. Doane,
Silence and Narrative: The Early Novels of Gertrude
Stein
(Westport, CT, 1986), p. 138.
49
See Gertrude Stein, ‘Lecture II — Narration’ [1935], in
The Poetics of the
New American Poetry
, ed. Donald Allen and Warren Tallman (New York, 1973), pp. 106–13.
50
Gertrude Stein,
Three Lives
(London, 1990), p. 62.
51
Peter Keating,
The Haunted Study: A Social History of the English Novel,
1875–1914
(London, 1991), p. 234.
52
Donald Gallup, ed.,
The Flowers of Friendship: Letters Written to
Gertrude Stein
(New York, 1953), p. 47. Galsworthy was an unenthusiastic recipient; Wells, after initial bewilderment, professed to admire the work and made repeated plans to meet up with Stein, but never did. There is no record of what either Bennett or Shaw made of the book.
53
Ibid., p. 50.
54
Stein told Carl Van Vechten that reality, rather than realism, was ‘what interests me most in the world’, in a letter of 5 October 1929. Edward Burns, ed.,
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten
,
1913
–1946
, vol. I (1913–1935) (New York, 1986), p. 203.
