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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Virginia Woolf, Colette, Gertrude Stein, H.D., Katherine Mansfield, Rebecca West, Djuna Barnes, Anne Waldman, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Susan Howe, Marianne Moore, Amy Lowell, Kay Boyle, Mina Loy, Janet Flanner, Gunvor Hofmo, Bryher, Anneli Rufus, Lorine Niedecker, Hilda Morley, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Grace Andreacchi, Diane Wakoski, Maxine Chernoff, Fanny Howe, Diane di Prima, Harryette Mullen, Dorothy Richardson, Barbara Guest, Madeline Gleason, Alice Notley, Joanne Kyger, Bernadette Mayer, Tina Darragh, Kristin Prevallet, Joan Retallack, Margery Latimer, Adrienne Monnier, Janine Pommy Vega, Blanaid Salkeld, Eva Figes, Mary Devenport O'Neill, Maggie O'Sullivan. Excerpt: Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946) was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France. Gertrude Stein's birthplace and childhood home in Allegheny WestGertrude Stein, the youngest of a family of five children, was born on February 3, 1874, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (merged with Pittsburgh in 1907) to well-educated German Jewish parents, Daniel and Amelia Stein. Her father was a railroad executive whose investments in streetcar lines and real estate made the family wealthy. When Gertrude was three years old, the Steins relocated for business reasons to Vienna and then Paris. They returned to America in 1878, settling in Oakland, California, where Stein attended First Hebrew Congregation of Oakland's Sabbath school. Her mother died in 1888, and her father in 1891. Michael, her eldest brother, took over the family business holdings. He arranged for Gertrude, and another sister Bertha, to live with their mother's family in Baltimore after the deaths of their parents. In 1892 she lived with her uncle David Bachrach. It was in Baltimore that Gertrude met Claribel Cone and Etta Cone, who held Saturday...
