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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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.

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  4. Sand was a diligent letter writer; more than twenty thousand of her letters are still extant. George Sand died on June 8, 1876, of an intestinal occlusion, but not before she had seen the dawn of ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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!"

  7. Lélia, Sand's most fascinating and original work, presents according to. Professor Schor a scandal of genre rather than of gender because it is a failed allegory. Schor highlights the apparent realism of the Lélia character amidst the semireality of the other characters. The allegory fails, says Schor, because Sand.

  8. Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1900. In the following essay, originally written in 1852, Sand discloses her motives for writing her novel Indiana. I wrote Indiana during the autumn of 1831. It was ...