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May 27, 2023 · The friendship and correspondence of George Sand (1804 – 1876) and Gustave Flaubert (1821 – 1880) form a fascinating and valuable chapter in literary history. Their letters are vignettes of the tumultuous time of the 1848 revolution, the Franco-Prussian War, and the fall of the Paris Commune. They’re also discussions of the challenges of ...
Oct 1, 2008 · George Sand. Elizabeth Harlan. Yale University Press, Oct 1, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 400 pages. div. George Sand was the most famous—and most scandalous—woman in nineteenth-century France. As a writer, she was enormously prolific—she wrote more than ninety novels, thirty-five plays, and thousands of pages of autobiography.
The romantic and rebellious novelist George Sand, born in 1804 as Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, remains one of France’s most infamous and beloved literary figures. Thanks to a peerless translation by Gretchen van Slyke, Martine Reid’s acclaimed biography of Sand is now available in English.
Then there are cartoons, quite as vicious as today's cartoons of media figures caught up in scandal. I wondered particularly about the hidden life of George Sand, who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804 and died in 1876. She is France's most famous nineteenth-century woman writer, but she is best known as the famous lover of the celebrated Chopin ...
May 8, 2019 · George Sand’s literary debut was a result of a collaboration with the writer Jules Sandeau. They published several stories together, signing them as Jules Sand. Her first published novel, Rose et Blanche (1831), was written in collaboration with Sandeau. And only in her first independent novel, Indiana (1832), she adopted the pseudonym that ...
George Sand’s married life was not happy, and it was not many years before she made a bold stroke for freedom in obtaining permission to spend half the year in Paris with her children, away from ...
24e colloque international George Sand Association: « George Sand : Vivre, penser, écrire le temps », Université Lyon 2, Lyon, 22-24 mai 2024 [date limite: 1er octobre 2023]. George Sand Association Memorial Dissertation Prize, deadline 15 January 2024. Donations to the prize fund gratefully accepted.
