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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. 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 ...

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  4. Mar 9, 2018 · George Sand’s Search for Spirituality. “Since no one was instructing me in religion, it occurred to me I needed one, and I made one for myself. ” – George Sand, History of My Life. 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.

  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. 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. Her voluminous correspondence illustrates vividly the ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. the partner who owns the narrative. In Sand's retrospective view of herself, unruly sex disappears offstage. By the time she tells her story, the private Aurore Dupin Dudevant had become the public figure George Sand. Beloved in old age as "the Good Lady of Nohant," she had begun to sanitize the past; episodes of passionate abandon, fol