Gertrude, Mabel, May: An ABC of Gertrude Stein's Love Triangle - Softcover

Gwendolyn Leick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903006147 ISBN 13: 9781903006146

Publisher: Grey Suit Editions, 2019

Synopsis

Gertrude Stein's first novel, one that was never published during her lifetime, was called Q.E.D. She wrote it to exorcise the experience of her first passionate love affair with the New Yorker May Bookstaver, the friend and lover of the Bostonian Mabel Haynes, a fellow student of Gertrude Stein's at Johns Hopkins Medical School between 1898 and 1902. The impact of the complicated affair on Stein's writing has attracted considerable attention but the subsequent lives of her two intimate friends have not been covered so far in any detailed way.

Gwendolyn Leick is the granddaughter of Mabel Haynes, who moved to Austria-Hungary in 1905. She began writing this book, after the chance discovery of her grandmother s part in Gertrude Stein's life some six years ago, in order to do justice to these remarkable women. The method of writing lays out the things, the notions and ideas, the people (friends, relatives, lovers, husbands), in the form of associative 'entries', woven around Gertrude Stein's texts, as much as on private letters, photographs and other found objects. It is an encyclopaedic enterprise, rather than a chronologically ordered biographical account. The character and the lives of the three protagonists and the times they lived in emerge through the kaleidoscope of the accumulated vignettes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grey Suit Editions
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1903006147
• ISBN 13: 9781903006146
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336