Gertrude stein alice b toklas autobiography samples

          I was born in San Francisco, California..

          The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

          1933 memoir by Gertrude Stein

          The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a book by Gertrude Stein, written in October and November 1932 and published in 1933.[1] It employs the form of an autobiography authored by Alice B.

          Toklas, her life partner. In 1998, Modern Library ranked it as one of the 20 greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century.[2]

          Summary of chapters

          Before I Came to Paris

          Alice B.

          Toklas, as narrator of the work, tells how she was born into an affluent family in San Francisco, describing her parents' backgrounds and family history.

          Largely to amuse herself, Gertrude Stein wrote this book in using as a sounding board her companion Miss Toklas, who had been with her for twenty-five.

        1. Largely to amuse herself, Gertrude Stein wrote this book in using as a sounding board her companion Miss Toklas, who had been with her for twenty-five.
        2. And then there were the habituées, among them Miss Mars and Miss Squires, whom Gertrude Stein afterwards immortalized in her story of Miss Furr and Miss Skeene.
        3. I was born in San Francisco, California.
        4. Toklas says that she has only met three “first class geniuses,” Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, and Alfred Whitehead.
        5. Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas rare book for sale.

          6. Later she describes meeting Gertrude Stein's sister-in-law during the fires in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and decided to move to Paris in 1907.

          My Arrival in Paris

          Alice writes about the important role of Hélène, Gertrude's housemaid, in their household in Paris.

          She mentions preparations for an art exhibition. She discus