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  1. Summary. George Sand’s novels did much to shape the sensibilities of the young people who welcomed the February Revolution. During March and April, she helped prepare the election of a Constituent Assembly by writing “Bulletins” published by the Interior Minister Ledru-Rollin.

  2. Jun 8, 2015 · Love, Forgiveness, the Pride of the Protest, and What Makes a Compelling Heroine: Dostoyevsky’s Beautiful Eulogy for George Sand. By Maria Popova. On June 8, 1876, the great French novelist, memoirist, and playwright Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, better known as George Sand, took her last breath five weeks before her seventy-second birthday ...

  3. Mar 1, 2008 · George Sand's ‘middle years’ gripped James not only through her skills of improvisation but her ability to ‘act herself out’, to maintain her presence of mind in situations of ‘the last difficulty’.

    • Jean Gooder
    • 2008
  4. Mar 31, 2022 · In the history of the genre of autobiography, George Sand was the first woman to write and publish the story of her own life. She began her story with events which had occurred before her birth, providing a detailed account of her ancestors up to 1854, when she turned 50.

    • Milena Gammaitoni
  5. Oct 1, 2008 · Overview. Contents. About this book. George Sand was the most famous—and most scandalous—woman in nineteenth-century France. As a writer, she was enormously prolific—she wrote more than ninety novels, thirty-five plays, and thousands of pages of autobiography.

    • Elizabeth Harlan
    • October 01, 2008
  6. by George Sand. Analysis. PDF Cite Share. Indiana was the novel that launched the phenomenally successful career of nineteenth-century French author George Sand. In her preface, Sand explains...

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