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There is something wonderfully excessive about George Sand's life and writing. I was astonished and delighted when I first discovered her in my teens. She seemed a fantastically vampish...
Dec 11, 2016 · By Nava Atlas | On December 11, 2016 | Updated May 14, 2022 | Comments (0) George Sand ( Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin; 1804-1876) the French novelist, memoirist, and essayist, was noted as much for her adventurous life and loves. Her writing life took her through great ups and downs, something familiar to those of us endeavor to live by the pen.
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While her literary fans know her as George Sand, her birth name was Amantine Lucile Dupin. Additionally, her family and friends often called her Aurore. Wikipedia
Sand was actually more successful than Victor Hugo. In fact, at the age of 27, she was already the most famous and in-demand author in all of Europe! Getty Images
In case you thought that she might have just been popular with the masses as a passing phase, get ready to be proven wrong. Sand wasn’t just deeply popular with the general reading population, her noted peers thought the world of her and her writing abilities. Fyodor Dostoevskywas a major fan of her work, reading anything by her that he could get h...
Sand was born on July 1, 1804, in Paris. Sadly, people who celebrate her birthday are rather overshadowed ever since that day by millions of Canadians launching fireworks into the sky. Wikipedia
The origins of Sand’s pen name lay with the collaboration that resulted in her debut into the literary world. Working together with established author Jules Sandeau, Sand co-wrote a number of stories. Rather than both authors getting a shared credit, they created the pen name “Jules Sand” and released the stories under that name. When it came time ...
Most of Sand’s childhood was spent in the French province of Berry, specifically her grandmother’s estate in Nohant. Sand continued to live there during her adult life. Pixabay
Sand's family was connected to a number of high-ranking European aristocrats. Her paternal grandmother, Marie-Aurore de Saxe, was the illegitimate daughter of Count Maurice de Saxe, who himself was an illegitimate son of a King of Poland. This also made Sand distantly related to a line of French kings. Not too shabby. Wikimedia Commons
Before you assume too much about Sand’s privileged upbringing, it’s worth noting that despite any connection to royal families of Europe on her father’s side, Sand’s mother was described as “a commoner.” Sand was also a strong advocate for the working class in her writing. Shutterstock
One of Sand’s first literary supporters and mentors was Henri de Latouche, who was himself an accomplished poet and novelist. Despite his own writing, however, Latouche has become memorable for his role in bringing the work of other famous writers to the public. Aside from encouraging Sand, de Latouche also published the work of renowned French poe...
Speaking of her paternal grandmother descended from royalty, Sand helped preserve Marie-Aurore de Saxe’s legacy and memory by writing about her during her career as an author. While writing her autobiography, Sand researched her grandmother’s life extensively so she could include her grandmother’s remarkable life into a novel meant to be about hers...
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil [1] ( French: [amɑ̃tin lysil oʁɔʁ dypɛ̃]; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand ( French: [ʒɔʁʒ sɑ̃d] ), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. [2] [3] One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, [4] being more renowned than either ...
Aug 27, 2000 · In writing the life, the biographer admits to being "disconcerted . . . by a sense that Sand had not one but many lives" and comes to agree with Sand's belief that the self was multiple and ...
Mar 1, 2008 · In Shakespeare – the extreme contrast – ‘the man himself’ is ‘so effectually locked up and imprisoned in the artist’ that we directly touch him nowhere. 22 It is George Sand's very exposure to ‘the facts of life’, her capacity to rise ‘inimitably’ to the human occasion in matters closest to her, that James applauds – a ...
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Dec 11, 2022 · George Sand answers her critics. “I wrote Indiana during the autumn of 1831. It was my first novel; I wrote it with no fixed plan, having no theory of art or philosophy on my mind. I was at the age when one writes with one’s instincts, and when reflection serves only to confirm our natural tendencies. Some people chose to see in the book a ...
