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Gertrude Stein

1874–1946 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

The index holds 2 works for Gertrude Stein so far. Search further, by the Library of Congress heading: WorldCat · OCPL. If you know a source, tell us.

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  1. Gertrude Stein lectures in Gerrard Hall Gertrude Stein spoke in Gerrard Hall on the making of her book The Making of Americans before a full house held to her limit of 500, sponsored by the Chapel Hill branch of the American Association of University Women and the University English department. Tickets at 50 cents added to the AAUW scholarship fund; the Weekly's editor wrote that the talk was neither instructive nor amusing. Place: Gerrard Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 15, 1935, p. 1

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Contempo records, 1930-1934

Contempo · 1930

Records of 'Contempo, a review of books and personalities', the Chapel Hill literary magazine, covering 1930 to 1934, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4408. Milton Abernethy and Tony Buttitta are among the people covered, along with writers the magazine dealt with: William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings and H. L. Mencken.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.

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A collection analysis of the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill : T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein

Randall, Jessy · 1994

Jessy Randall measured the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill against the published work of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein in this 120 page master's paper submitted to the School of Information and Library Science in 1994. Bibliographies for all three writers make up the bulk of it.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.

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