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Jun 8, 2015 · By Maria Popova. 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.
Feb 13, 2024 · First published: February 13, 2024 by Anne Price. Feminist before her time, user of non-binary pronouns more than 150 years earlier than today, George Sand was a prolific writer and produced some of her finest work from her house in Nohant. The Berry countryside north of the Creuse is rich in flamboyant Gothic and Renaissance châteaux.
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Mar 1, 2008 · Not that George Sand ever shut herself up in a tower of art or left a letter unanswered. Meddling with the ‘old dead squabbles’ taught James that a great enough talent ‘may really carry off almost anything’ (p. 746).
- Jean Gooder
- 2008
Grandmother Dupin put an end to such talk and removed her from school in April 1820. Life at Nohant was pleasant for Aurore. A voracious reader (of everything from Aristotle to Benjamin Franklin) and a skilled rider, she was allowed a great deal of freedom.
In any case, Sand's presentation of herself as "authentic" was just an other pose: her life was largely comprised of such poses, some of which directly contradicted one another.
Jan 2, 2005 · Sand’s precocious sense of self predated the rebirth of the bored, unhappy wife and mother Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, age 26, as “George Sand.”
George Sand. Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil [1] ( French: [amɑ̃tin lysil oʁɔʁ dypɛ̃]; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand ( French: [ʒɔʁʒ sɑ̃d] ), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist.
