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Gertrude Stein (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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America made her, Gertrude Stein claimed once, but Paris made her an artist. After her aborted career as a psychiatrist, trained by William James at Harvard, and her first unrequited love for a woman, she followed her brother to France in 1903, always on the search for novelty, change, and education. Her American past still haunted her: Her first book, deeply psychological and immediately successful, was Three Lives. Her most ambitious early project, The Making of...
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Making of Americans, The (Literary Places) -
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Three Lives (Identities and Issues) -
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