Keyser Stein, German Jews whose parents had emigrated to Baltimore. By the time she was seventeen both her parents had died, leaving her to face the world with her three other siblings. Her parents had exposed her to the clothing Industry and traveled from Paris, Austria, and California frequently. Perhaps her familiar connection to clothing motivated her to write in such a way that inspired the Feminist society. The age of flappers and women wanting to be equal with men in both voting and the work place must have inspired her. As the male dominant field of medicine revealed its bias toward women, one has to wonder if her problem with the medical fields became more personal. This in itself may have played a major role in her developing a strong will to expose the sensual side of women's feelings. Her novel Q.E.D., was an account of her tragic lesbian liaison in Baltimore. Fernhurst, another of her novels reflected the treatment of power within a love triangle. Gertrude Stein was already in modernistic flavor with her writing when she published in 1905, a collection of three 'realistic' stories of common women , in the tile of " Three Lives". By flicking through the pages of Gertrude Stein's " Three Lives" one can begin to see the understanding of roles that she perceived in the social order of the roaring twenties between working women and men.. Even the chapters were labeled in a way they depicted "The life of the good Anna" and the evolving death of the innocence that was the "good Anna". Here in the story, realism shows a distinct tie in to what she herself had discovered while interacting in a male world that often was at odds with the true feelings of women. Perhaps the primitive traits of some men of her time had drove Gertrude Stein away from a relationship of marriageable bliss, but her writing had undoubtedly raised many eyebrows.

< http://www.english.uiuc.edu/ma ps/poets/s_z/stein/bio.htm>

1995

Linda Wagner-Martin

Stein's Life and Career

Learn more about this author, Larry Lounsbury.
Click here to send this author comments or questions.

• << previous page
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6

---

Add your voice

Know something about Examining the concept and future of the American dream?
We want to hear your view. Write now!