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- But when they volunteered for the American Fund for the French Wounded, an organization that helped soldiers in France during World War I, they had to provide and drive their own supply vehicles. The couple ordered a Ford truck from the U.S. and Stein took driving lessons from her friend William Edwards Cook.
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The little Ford car was ready. Gertrude Stein had learned to drive a French car and they all said it was the same. I have never driven any car, but it would appear that it is not the same.
- Gertrude Stein
Stein ordered a Ford truck from the United States, learned how to drive, and with Alice delivered supplies to French hospitals. They called the truck, their first vehicle, “Auntie,” named for Stein’s sensible Aunt Pauline, “who always behaved admirably in emergencies.”
The little Ford car was ready. Gertrude Stein had learned to drive a french car and they all said it was the same. I have never driven any car, but it would appear that it is not the same. We went outside Paris to get it when it was ready and Gertrude Stein drove it in. Of course the first thing she did was to stop dead on the track between two ...
Stein bought a truck, learned to drive, and transported hospital supplies to wounded French and American soldiers for the remainder of the war. Stein characterized the international community of writers in Paris after the war as "the lost generation," but she and Alice rejected their way of life in favor of a conventional bourgeois existence.
She published little. After she and Alice had lived in Spain for the first year of World War I, and then returned to France to work for the American Friends of the French Wounded (Stein driving a remodeled Ford truck from 1916 to 1919), they concentrated on finding publishers for Stein's accumulating work, which now included plays and novels.
Toklas and Stein returned to Paris in June 1916, and acquired a Ford automobile with the help of associates in the United States; Gertrude learned to drive it with the help of her friend William Edwards Cook.
May 18, 2009 · During the lecture tour, for example, a drawing of Stein and Toklas and their automobile appeared on a brochure advertising Ford cars—though Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent had published several anti-Semitic articles in the 1920s—leaving the reader to wonder whether, for both Stein and Ford, the drive for popular promotion trumped ...
