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  • Gertrude Stein: Poet, Modernist… Fascist? 

    Gertrude Stein: Poet, Modernist… Fascist? 

    Gertrude Stein’s name echoes through the modernist canon – a self-proclaimed literary innovator, avant-garde poet and patron of the arts. She hosted salons that drew the likes of Hemingway, Picasso and Fitzgerald, and coined the term ‘Lost Generation’. Her legacy, at a glance, seems firmly entrenched in the cultural revolution of the early 20th century. But…