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Ida : a novel / Gertrude Stein ; edited by Logan Esdale.

by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.

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Yale University Press in association with the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2012.

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 Ida.

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Women -- Psychology -- Fiction.

Celebrities -- Fiction.

Sex role -- Fiction.

Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction.

9780300169768 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)

0300169760 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)

xxxvi, 348 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Originally published: New York : Random House, c1941. A reissue of the novel with critical matter added.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : Ida made a name for herself -- Ida : a novel -- Contexts. Stein's life and publications -- Compositions, 1935-1940 -- Genealogy of Ida : a novel -- Mrs. Simpson -- Selected letters -- Intertexts. "Hortense Sèanger" (1895) -- "Film deux soeurs qui ne sont pas soeurs" (1929) -- "The superstitions of Fred Anneday, Annday, Anday, a novel of real life" (1934) -- "Ida" (1938) -- "Lucretia Borgia : a play" (1939) -- "A portrait of Daisy, to Daisy on her birthday" (1939) -- Contexts II. "How writing Is written" (1935), by Gertrude Stein -- Introduction to "The geographical history of America" (1936), by Thornton Wilder -- "Gertrude Stein makes sense" (1947), by Thornton Wilder -- Reviews of Ida : a novel, in 1941 -- Bibliography of criticism on Ida : a novel.

With the publication of this workshop edition of Ida, we have the novel exactly as it was published in 1941, and we also have the full record of its creation. Logan Esdale offers informative critical commentary and judiciously selected archival materials to illuminate Stein's experience of authorship from the novel's beginning in early summer 1937, through the various drafts and negotiations with her publisher, to the reviews that greeted the book's publication. Stein's careful and systematic preservation of all Ida-related materials for her archive at the Yale University Library was a conscious decision, and an invitation for us to study the complexity of her creative process. Ida, a character reportedly inspired by Wallis Simpson, the infamous Duchess of Windsor, is someone who becomes well known for being well known. In the novel, a mature Stein explores the significance of being well known to others and the effect that has on where we live and who we love. She offers an engaging picture of Ida's adventures in the world of identity, as well as a fascinating reflection on her own career as a famous personality.

Literary fiction.

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