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Returning to Paris in 1839, Mme d’Agoult began her career as a writer and in 1846 published a largely autobiographical novel, Nélida. She was a close friend of the novelist George Sand , whose views on morals , politics, and society she shared and in whose house she had lived for a time with Liszt.
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Jun 4, 2015 · Reprints & Permissions. Read this article. It is ironic, given their contentious personal relationship, that George Sand and Marie d’Agoult should be so like-minded in their fiction. Their first novels, Indiana and Nélida, both offer poignant portrayals of the female condition and scathing criticisms of the marriage system that allowed young ...
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Dec 5, 2022 · Marie d'Agoult-George Sand, correspondance. by. Stern, Daniel, 1805-1876. Publication date. 2001. Topics. Stern, Daniel, 1805-1876 -- Correspondence, Sand, George, 1804-1876 -- Correspondence, Authors, French -- 19th century -- Correspondence. Publisher.
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Marie was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, the daughter of Alexander Victor François de Flavigny (1770 – 1819), a footloose emigré French aristocrat, and his wife Maria-Elisabeth Bethmann (1772 – 1847), a German-Jewish banker's daughter whose family had converted to Catholicism. The young Marie spent her early years in Germany and completed her ...
Marie's studies and intellectual discussions with friends and acquaintances created an environment where her thoughts and ideas developed into powerful arguments. Her friend and admirer, Thèophile de Ferriere, encouraged her to write. She had been inspired by another female writer, George Sand, also known as Amandine Dupin, the Baronne Dudevant, wh...
Marie d'Agoult's stands as a young woman who was driven to sacrifice everything for love in her scandalous affair with Franz Liszt. Thus causing her to be disowned by her family and separated from her children with Comte d'Agoult, and to be ostracized by the society of her time. Yet, through their relationship, and the liberal exchange and discussi...
Cronin, Vincent. Four Women in Pursuit of an Ideal. London: Collins, 1965; also published as The Romantic Way. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. ASIN B0000CMPJSd'Agoult, Marie. Nélida. State University of New York Press [1846] 2003. ISBN 0-7914-5912-8Haldane, Charlotte. The Galley Slaves of Love: The Story of Marie d'Agoult and Franz Liszt. London: Harvill Press, 1957. OCLC 2055460Rabine, Leslie. Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology (Women and Culture Series). University of Michigan Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0472100682She became close to Liszt's circle of friends, including Frédéric Chopin (despite the hatred between her and Chopin’s partner George Sand), who dedicated his 12 Études, Op. 25 to her (his earlier set of 12 Études, Op. 10 had been dedicated to Liszt).
Aug 11, 2000 · The book explains how George Sand became d'Agoult's friend and then betrayed her by giving Balzac information about her affair with Liszt, which he used in his novel Béatrix. The book concludes with a moving account of d'Agoult's last years.
Also scandalous was Sand's smoking tobacco in public; neither peerage nor gentry had yet sanctioned the free indulgence of women in such a habit, especially in public, although Franz Liszt's paramour Marie d'Agoult affected this as well, smoking large cigars.
