The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Gertrude Stein
- First Published: 1933
- Time of Work: 1907 to 1932
- Setting: France, primarily Paris
- Principal Characters: Gertrude Stein, Leo Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Thornton Wilder
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Biography
- Subjects: Homosexuality or homosexuals, Authors or writers, Art or artists, Social life, Paris, 1920’s, Lesbianism or lesbians, World War I, Painting or painters, Parties
- Locales: Paris, France, England, Nimes, France
Form and Content
The format of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is deceptively simple. Its seven chapters—ranging in length from the three pages of chapter 1, “Before I Came to Paris,” to the forty-nine pages of chapter 6, “The War,” or the fifty-nine pages of chapter 7, “After the War: 1919–1932”—detail the artistic development of Gertrude Stein and only incidentally the life of Alice B. Toklas.
When Toklas came to Paris in 1907, Stein, a graduate of Radcliffe College and one course short of a medical degree from The Johns Hopkins...
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