English language and literature 2nd faculty

Education

• Stein attended Radcliffe College, then an annex of Harvard University.
• The duration of her study lasted from 1893 – 1897 and was a student of psychologist William James.
• The study under James would be hugely significant as we see the representation of “stream of consciousness”, a method used in her writing.
• James then encouraged Stein to enroll at Johns Hopkins Medical School, Stein, however, was disinterested and could not grasp the study.

Later Years

During World War I, Stein bought her own Ford van, and she and Toklas served as ambulance drivers for the French. After the war, she maintained her salon ( though after 1928 she spent much of the year in the village of Bilignin, and in 1937, she moved to a more stylish location in Paris) and served as both hostess and an inspiration to such American expatriates as Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitrgerald( she is credited with coining the term “the Lost Generation”). She also lectured in England in 1926 and published her only commercial success, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ( 1933), which she wrote from Toklas’s point-of-view.