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This week’s Notable Lesbian is:

Gertrude Stein
February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946

Gertrude Stein was an American writer and is considered to have acted as a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. After moving to Paris in 1903 she started to write in earnest: novels, plays, stories, libretti and poems. Increasingly, she developed her own highly idiosyncratic, playful, sometimes repetitive and sometimes humorous style. Stein met her lifelong partner, Alice B. Toklas in 1907.

Interesting tid bit:
Stein spent most of her life in France. Her salon at 27 Rue de Fleurus, with walls covered by avant-garde paintings, attracted many of the great artists and writers including Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Henri Matisse, Thornton Wilder, Sherwood Anderson, and Guillaume Apollinaire. She coined the term “Lost Generation” for some of these expatriate American writers. Several of Stein’s writings have been set by composers.

“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” ~ Gertrude Stein.

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