The experience made a deep impression on Stein, whose first novel, QED, completed in Baltimore in 1903, was an autobiographical account of this love triangle, with Bookstaver's character named "Helen Thomas.
"[1][2] In 1906 Bookstaver married Charles E. Knoblauch (1870–1934), a broker on the New York Stock Exchange and Rough Rider veteran of the Spanish–American War, at her father's summer cottage in Newport, Rhode Island.
She carried Gertrude Stein's manuscript 'word portraits' of Matisse and Picasso to Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work office at 291 Fifth Avenue, (Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession) and insisted that Stieglitz publish them, which he did in the August 1912 edition of Camera Work, a special edition devoted to Picasso and Matisse.
The dog, named Kuroki, was a French bull terrier which became famous when Bookstaver took him for a walk in 1915 "without any muzzle over his inconsequential nose," (as reported by The New York Times) a violation of health regulations.
Her lawyer Bertha Rembaugh argued "as long as children weren't muzzled dogs should not be …" The case failed, and Bookstaver paid a fine.