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The passions of George Sand. By Benita Eisler. Jan. 2, 2005 12 AM PT. Benita Eisler is the author of biographies of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Lord Byron and Frederic Chopin. She is at ...
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
Mar 1, 2008 · While ‘sublime’, this couple ‘were really not serious’ (p. 749). George Sand, by then Musset's ‘relinquished but not disserved mistress’, writes from Venice urging him to take another lover. Struck by such ‘wondrous sleight-of-hand’, James recalls a remark to the effect that she was ‘a woman quite by accident’.
- Jean Gooder
- 2008
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Sep 4, 2000 · Sept. 4, 2000 12 AM PT. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES. The free-spirited, large-souled Frenchwoman who took the pen name “George Sand” was so esteemed in her day, she not only won the admiration of ...
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 ...
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.
Aurore Dupin Dudevant, also known as George Sand, was a descendant of a king of Poland on her father's side and of a Parisian bird-seller on her mother's. Her critics vilified her as a loose woman, a political radical, and a "lioness" who devoured her numerous lovers.
