Three Lives

One of Stein's most enduring and beloved works, three stories about women.

About the Series

iii

About This Volume

vi

Illustrations

xii

PART ONE Three Lives: The Complete Text

1

(216)

Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background

3

(24)

Chronology of Stein's Life and Times

27

(8)

A Note on the Text

35

(1)

Three Lives [Grafton Press edition, 1909, written 1906]

36

(181)

PART TWO Three Lives: Cultural Contexts

217

(163)

The Woman Question: Rights, the Vote, Education, Health

219

(41)

Address to the New York State Legislature (1860)

223

(3)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

``The Working-Girls of New York,'' from Folly As It Flies

226

(3)

Fanny Fern (Sara Payson [Willis] Parton)

The Higher Education of Women

229

(4)

Anna Julia

Haywood Cooper

One Farmer's Wife

233

(3)

Women and Economics

236

(10)

Charlotte Perkins

Stetson Gilman

Letter to Henri Pierre Roche (June 12, 1912)

246

(3)

Gertrude Stein

Fat and Blood and How to Make Them

249

(2)

S. Weir Mitchell

Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

251

(6)

William Osler

Obstetrics

257

(3)

J. Whitridge Williams

Questions of Otherness: Sexuality (``Inversion''), Race, Gender

260

(48)

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

263

(8)

Oscar Wilde

The Sexual Aberrations

271

(10)

Sigmund Freud

Forbidden Fires

281

(4)

Margaret C. Anderson

The Mechanism of Detumescence

285

(6)

Havelock Ellis

The Modern Jew Who Has Given Up the Faith of His Fathers Can Reasonably and Consistently Believe in Isolation

291

(2)

Gertrude Stein

``Judaism'' and ``Woman and Her Significance,'' from Sex and Character

293

(9)

Otto Weininger

The Case Stated

302

(6)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Discussions of Mind and Philosophy

308

(21)

``The Varieties of Attention'' and ``The Stream of Thought'' from The Principles of Psychology

310

(9)

William James

``Form in Words,'' from Persons and Places

319

(2)

George Santayana

Brain and Thought: A Philosophical Illusion

321

(4)

Henri Bergson

``The Aim of Philosophy,'' from Modes of Thought

325

(4)

Alfred North Whitehead

Aesthetic Questions: Realism and the Modern

329

(31)

Letter to Emile Zola (1874)

332

(3)

Gustave Flaubert

The Art of the Novel

335

(3)

Henry James

Crumbling Idols, Twelve Essays on Art and Literature

338

(3)

Hamlin Garland

An Experiment in Misery

341

(6)

Stephen Crane

``Simplicity in Art,'' from The Responsibility of the Novelist and Other Literary Essays

347

(5)

Frank Norris

The Souls of Black Folk

352

(8)

William Edward

Burghardt Du Bois

Modernism and the Avant-Garde

360

(20)

Letter to Mabel Weeks about European Painting

363

(6)

Leo Stein

Letter to His Son Paul (September 26, 1906)

369

(2)

Paul Cezanne

The Nation, Anonymous Review of Stein's Three Lives (January 20, 1910)

371

(1)

Speculations, or Post-Impressionism in Prose

372

(4)

Mabel Dodge Luhan

How to Read Gertrude Stein

376

(4)

Carl Van Vechten

Selected Bibliography

380

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