Volume 21, Number 3 · March 7, 1974
Wickedly Wonderful Widow
By Virgil Thomson
Staying on Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas
edited by Edward Burns, with an introduction by Gilbert A. Harrison
Liveright, 426 pp., $11.95
No bouquet of letters by Alice Toklas could fail the reader; she was such a vivid character, vivid and voluble. So voluble indeed that after thirty-eight years with Gertrude Stein, for Toklas a time of relative reticence, during the next twenty she fulfilled herself in words, both spoken words and epistolary, to a degree hardly less than Stein herself had done.
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