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  1. Summary. George Sands 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. 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. Feb 13, 2024 · George Sand: The Radical and Revolutionary Female Writer of France. Feminist before her time, user of non-binary pronouns more than 150 years earlier than today, George Sand was a prolific writer and produced some of her finest work from her house in Nohant. The Berry countryside north of the Creuse is rich in flamboyant Gothic and Renaissance ...

  4. Middle-aged when she wrote this memoir, Sand offers a stirring defense of her mother’s early years, accusing a class system that encouraged sexual exploitation of poor parentless girls by rich...

  5. 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.

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  6. Indiana was the novel that launched the phenomenally successful career of nineteenth-century French author George Sand. In her preface, Sand explains that she wrote without any plan in mind...

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  8. 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’.