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A beauty is not suddenly in a circle. It comes with rapture. A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle. - Gertrude Stein Attribution: Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), U.S. author. (Written 1920), originally published in Last Operas and Plays (1949). “A Circular Play,” A Stein Reader, ed. Ulla E. Dydo, Northwestern University Press (1993).

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Gertrude Stein

Titles by Gertrude Stein:

• Melanctha
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

eNotes:

• Remarks as Literature: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas)
• Portrait of Gertrude Stein 1906 by Pablo Picasso. (Melanctha)
• Gertrude Stein (Melanctha)
• Gertrude Stein (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas)

Salem on History:

• Gertrude Stein

Critical Companions:

• Stein, Gertrude (Feminism)

Encyclopedia:

• Stein, Gertrude (The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales)
• Stein, Gertrude (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Stein, Gertrude (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Stein, Gertrude (The Oxford Dictionary of Art)

Salem on Literature:

• Gertrude Stein (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Gertrude Stein (Women’s Issues (Ready Reference series))
• Gertrude Stein (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
• Gertrude Stein (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
• Gertrude Stein (Identities and Issues in Literature)
• Gertrude Stein (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
• Gertrude Stein (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Gertrude Stein (Critical Survey of Poetry)

Literary Criticism:

• Stein, Gertrude (Short Story Criticism)
• Stein, Gertrude (Poetry Criticism)
• Stein, Gertrude (Drama Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Gertrude Stein dies
• Gertrude Stein publishes Three Lives: Stories of the Good Anna, Melanctha, and the Gentle Lena
• Gertrude Stein is born