Three Lives (Penguin Random House) by Gertrude Stein

Three Lives (Penguin Random House)

Gertrude Stein

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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ISBN 9780140181845
Genre Award Winner; Fiction
Publication Date 01-May-90
Publisher Penguin RandomHouse
Format Paperback
Language English
Rating Great
Foreword Author Ann Charters
BookID 13229

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