Three Lives

Description

Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realistic depictions of immigrant women who had no occupational choice but to become domestic workers. This collection of documents from the history of women's suffrage, medical history, modernist art, and literature enables readers to see how radical Stein's subject was.

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<p>In <i>Three Lives</i> are the stories of three working-class woman from Bridgepoint—a town loosely based on Baltimore—in the early twentieth century. Each story tells of the hopes, loves, romances and sadnesses of the women as they live their lives.</p> <p>Written in a unconventional style, the lives of the three women are uncovered through their layered conversations and interactions more than through detailed depictions. The book is notable for its descriptions of homosexual romance, something that at the time in the <abbr>USA</abbr> wasn’t accepted (indeed, <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/gertrude-stein">Gertrude Stein</a> moved with her partner to Paris to be able to live openly).</p> <p><i>Three Lives</i> was Gertrude Stein’s first published book, and although the sales weren’t as expected it was generally well received by critics. It’s considered today to be among her more accessible books, and is a regular on English literature curricula.</p>

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Other Editions

• Three LivesStandard Ebooks2018-01-01
• Three livesThe Grafton Press1909-01-01
• Three livesA. & C. Boni1927-01-01
• Three lives.New directions1933-01-01
• Three livesNew Directions1933-01-01
• Three livesRandom House1936-01-01