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  1. Jun 8, 2015 · George Sand was one of the most brilliant, stern and just representatives of that category of the contemporaneous Western new men who, when they appeared, started with a direct negation of those “positive” acquisitions which brought to a close the activities of the bloody French — more correctly, European — revolution of the end of the ...

  2. This ideal of "authenticity" brands Sand as a disciple of Jean-Jacques. Rousseau, but as with Rousseau himself the more skeptical reader. wonders how pure and authentic any emotion can remain when it is. 1 NAKED IN THE MARKETPLACE: The Lives of George Sand, by Benita Eisler. Counterpoint. $26.95.

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  4. Mar 9, 2018 · George Sand (1804-1876) is known to modern readers as a symbol of feminism, a woman who challenged patriarchal values through her writings and her life. Sand left her husband, took multiple lovers, dressed like a man, smoked cigarettes, and wrote novels, essays, and plays in which she defined herself apart from the social conventions that ...

  5. The passions of George Sand. Benita Eisler is the author of biographies of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Lord Byron and Frederic Chopin. She is at work on a study of George Sand. The year ...

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › George_SandGeorge Sand - Wikipedia

    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 ...

  7. Let us take the first novel, Indiana. The heroine, whose Christian name gives the book its title, is a creole who has married the aged, hot-tempered, rheumatic old soldier, Colonel Delmare, whose ...

  8. Germaine Brée. O F all the French writers in the 19th century, George Sand. one, critics agree, whose impact upon the society of the surpasses that of her contemporaries and reached an. audience beyond the boundaries of France. Historians of critics and commentators have seemed subsequently fascinated uniquely by the personality of the woman ...