Henry James. "I wanna be a lion," Gertrude Stein announced to her brother Leo. So she followed him to Cambridge, and, in 1893, registered at the "Harvard Annex." Gertrude Stein has since become ...

Sophie Oliver guides us inside the remarkable home of Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas in Paris and focusses on the material objects they cherished as a window onto their world. Show more Sophie ...

In 1907, when she was 29, she travelled to Paris and met Gertrude Stein the day after ... 27 Rue de Fleurus and its incredible art collection. In WWI, Stein and Toklas drove delivery trucks.