Gertrude Stein (Critical Lives) by Lucy Daniel

Author:Lucy Daniel [Daniel, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gertrude Stein, Biography & Autobiography, Literary, Literary Criticism, Women Authors, American
ISBN: 186189516X
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2009-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

‘Hurrah for gloire’, cried Stein.34 There was something innocent about Stein’s instinct for fame. There was nothing cynical about it. Throughout her life she would rely on various unpaid propagandists (Dodge, Van Vechten, Sitwell, Hemingway, Alice) who were willing to put themselves out in her service, out of personal loyalty. The ‘Portrait of Mabel Dodge’ was also circulating in London. Throughout 1913, Stein was to be fêted as one of the most important exponents of the international avant garde.

More and more Stein was dependent on Alice’s approval, and bowed to her in all questions of how to proceed with her work and her life. In 1913, at Alice’s instigation, she went to London to find a publisher for Tender Buttons. There she met up with Roger Fry and other members of the Bloomsbury set including Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey. Her international fame was growing, but the international situation was to curtail its flowering at just that point. Tender Buttons was published in 1914, and war broke out while Gertrude and Alice were in London. ‘It was a strange winter ... nothing and everything happened.’35 In March 1915 Gertrude and Alice went to Mallorca, fleeing the war and their fearfulness. They were to stay there for a year. During this year in Mallorca Gertrude continued to write her love epistles to Alice, as a sort of staving off of the horror. And it proved a year of bonding, and settling into the roles that each would live in for the rest of their life together. A year later, in March 1917 they set off in the Ford car they had shipped in from the US, in service of the American Fund for French Wounded, delivering supplies to hospitals. They had sold their last Matisse — the famous Femme au Chapeau — to fund their war work.36 After the war, in 1922, they were both awarded the Reconnaissance Française.

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