1925–30, special use of Gertrude
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Eliot, Gertrude Stein and others, most famously serializing James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” a decision that made her a target of censors and conservatives.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and their contemporaries produced wildly different books with one thing in common: the belief that writers needed to break with the old.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Virginia depicted herself and her husband Leonard “lying crushed under an immense manuscript of Gertrude Stein’s”—and so, literary modernism’s eccentric pioneer was rejected by its suavest representative.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Investors could learn from Gertrude, a lady dedicated to self-preservation, in assessing comments from players in the artificial-intelligence drama.
From Barron's • Oct. 28, 2025
Gertrude lifted my chin and I looked up into eyes that were deep and gray and full of mystery.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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