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Apr 27, 2018 · The romantic and rebellious novelist George Sand, born in 1804 as Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, remains one of France’s most infamous and beloved literary figures. Thanks to a peerless translation by Gretchen van Slyke, Martine Reid’s acclaimed biography of Sand is now available in English. Drawing on recent French and English biographies of Sand as well as her novels, plays ...
- Martine Reid
- April 27, 2018
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 ...
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George Sand—to break the mold and become herself—was perhaps the most feminist act of the nineteenth century.” In addition, Gérard Roubichou, Cultural Attaché to the French Embassy, presented an award to actress Rosemary Harris, who had brought George Sand to life on the TV screens of millions of Americans. Ever interested in the George ...
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. Her voluminous correspondence illustrates vividly the enthusiasm of ...
Mar 31, 2022 · 5.1 Premise. George Sand is essentially our contemporary. This no audacious statement. It is simply a matter of recognising the genius of an anticipator, opening up a sense of closeness, of reassuring commonality, leading, perhaps beyond the commonplace and beyond the legends regarding a woman remembered because her ‘clothes’ gave rise to ...
- Milena Gammaitoni
May 31, 1973 · 1 Henry James, more profoundly, extended the wonder to all people. It was not simply the new. dimension Sand gave to "feminine nature," he observed in the gather- ing awareness of his own bisexuality, "but the richness that she adds. to the masculine."2. Wholeness is all. Men or women, we all seek it. "Only connect!"
Feb 13, 2024 · Born Amantine Lucille Aurore Dupont, George Sand has been compared with George Eliot who also wrote under a male pseudonym.They both wrote of weak, dishonest men who somehow managed to seduce women, but whereas Eliot wrote with her head, and wrote just five novels in her lifetime, Sand wrote passionately and spontaneously from her heart, producing eighty novels.
