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BENITA EISLER'S 2003 BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY, Chopin's Funeral, read more as a double portrait of Chopin and his lover, George Sand, than as a single biographical study of Chopin himself. It must have been hard for Eisler to resist this subject, for Chopin was essentially a negative and elusive character, difficult to pin down on the page, while Sand was an emotional exhibitionist who presented the ...
Sep 4, 2000 · Jack’s highly readable and sympathetic biography of Sand paints a particularly compelling portrait of her early and middle years, including her adolescence, her ill-fated marriage, her quest for ...
- George Sand’s Family
- Childhood and Early Youth of Aurore Dupin
- George Sand, After Turning 17
- George Sand’s Marriage to Casimir Dudevant
- George Sand from 1831 to 1835
- George Sand from 1836 to 1847
- George Sand and Chopin on The Island Mallorca
- George Sand’s Return to France
- Last Years in The Life of Aurore Dupin
- The Works of George Sand
George Sand, baptized Aurore Dupin Delaborde, was born on July 5, 1804, in Paris. Her father, Maurice François Dupin de Francueil, was a highborn aristocrat, cavalry officer, grandson by bastard line of King Augustus II of Poland. Her mother, Sophie Delaborde, was a poor dressmaker, the daughter of a bird vendor and who had little understanding wit...
Aurore Dupin spent the rest of her childhood in Nohant, the place she would always return to in search of happiness, the place she loved the most in this world. Madame Dupin took over the education of little Aurore. A teacher who had been her father’s tutor, was chosen by Aurore’s grandmother to educate her. This tutor was the one who induced her t...
Aurore was 17 years old and revolted against aristocratic prejudices, the privileges of fortune and education, the childish idleness of the privileged class, moral intolerance and pagan customs in a society that called itself Christian. She got tired of life, she wanted to isolate herself from the world in the midst of country solitude; and only th...
In the spring of 1822, Aurore met Baron Casimir Dudevant, whom she married a few months later, when she was just 18 years old. It was never clear why Aurore chose to marry this grim man, who had been almost ten years with her and with whom she had little in common. They had two children, Maurice, born in 1823, and Solange, born in 1828. But this un...
In early 1831, Aurore Dupin abandoned her husband and, along with their two children, returned to Paris, following her young lover, Jules Sandeau, eight years her junior. With her return to Paris, Aurore, still Baroness Dudevant, began the most scandalous period of her life, but also the most intellectually fruitful. She started as a writer, collab...
A year later, in 1836, Alfred Musset dedicated to Aurore his magnum opus, “Confession of a son of the century”, one of the most emblematic novels of French Romanticism. Many began to criticize Aurore Dupin for dressing according to men’s fashion and for smoking. Aurore had no problem smoking in public, something that in the mid-19th century was see...
When the winter of 1838 began, George Sand traveled to Mallorca, in search of a better climate for the rheumatism of her son Maurice. Her daughter Solange also traveled with her. Despite the fact that Chopin did not like traveling due to his precarious health and the discomforts of transportation at that time, George Sand convinced him to accompany...
After the winter, in May 1839, the family returned to France and settled in Nohant. Thanks to the good weather, the tranquility and the care and encouragement of George Sand, Chopin had a very productive period. But he was getting weaker and weaker due to consumption. He couldn’t take even a short walk and had to ride on a donkey. George Sand and C...
In 1848 the Revolution broke out in France against the government of Louis Philippe de Orléans, the last King that France had. Aurore Dupin moved to Paris and worked more than ever, with her writings, on behalf of workers and women’s rights. Her frustration was enormous when massacres took place in various places. Aurore wrote: “I cannot believe in...
The works that Aurore Dupin left for posterity under the pseudonym George Sand cover 60 novels; almost 50 stories, short stories and novels; 30 plays; numerous articles of criticism and politics, autobiographical writings and an enormous correspondence (more than 1,200 letters). Among her most successful novels are “Indiana” (1832), “Lélia” (1833),...
Jun 8, 2015 · On June 8, 1876, the great French novelist, memoirist, and playwright Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, better known as George Sand, took her last breath five weeks before her seventy-second birthday. Over the course of her long and prolific career, she had touched millions of readers and influenced generations of writers. Among them was beloved Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky — a young man at ...
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 ...
Mar 1, 2008 · O n 6 N ovember 1913 Henry James sent Macmillan Notes of a Son and Brother, the second volume of his record of the James family. A month later, on 8 December, he sent a long piece on George Sand to the Times Literary Supplement – a review of the third volume of Wladimir Karénine's biography, published in Paris in 1912. 2 The close conjunction of these two topics highlights some of James's ...
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1804 – 1876 A.D. George Sand, the nom de plume of Armandine L. A. (Dupin) Dudevant, a French novelist, born in Paris. Her earlier years were spent at Nohant, one of the loveliest districts of France, where she imbibed that passion for rural life which always characterized her. She was persuaded by her parents in 1822 to marry Casimir Dudevant ...
