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Aug 23, 2019 · Portrait of George Sand, 1838 by Auguste Charpentier – WikiCommons. Sand was born in 1804 in Paris, but very soon after moved in with grandmother in Nohant, France, after her father passed away. She was then sent to a convent in 1817 where she lived until she married a man named Casimir Dudevant in 1822. It seems that Sand was never made for ...
Sep 1, 1985 · To the Editor: Between drafts two and three of my review of George Sand's ''Lucrezia Floriani'' (Aug. 11), Sand's two children became four, a mistake I did not catch and for which I apologize to ...
Sep 8, 2017 · The next line in this poem draws attention to Sand’s gender identity with ‘Self-called George Sand.’ After all, George Sand is the creation of Aurore Dupin (George Sand’s real name) a female author who felt compelled to publish under a man’s name in order to gain acceptance by her audience.”. . . . . . . . . . More about George Sand
With characteristically meticulous craftsmanship and photographic realism, Bonheur’s Le labourage records the steady pull of the plow by two horses. A child rides atop a grey’s back and shares a smile with his hardworking father. The brilliant clarity and use of light in painting the furrowed fields and the darkening clouds recalls Bonheur ...
Sep 1, 2004 · George Sand wrote tirelessly, and for the magnitude of her life's work, is often compared to another nineteenth-century giant, Honoré de Balzac. She wrote some sixty novels, more than twenty-five plays and twenty-six short stories and novellas, that is, the bulk of her literary output was novelistic (Rea 401). Like her immensely prolific contemporary, Balzac, she was first and foremost an ...
Let us take the first novel, Indiana. The heroine, whose Christian name gives the book its title, is a creole who has married the aged, hot-tempered, rheumatic old soldier, Colonel Delmare, whose ...
Apr 12, 2015 · Sand's first novel, Indiana, explored a longing for passion and society's constraints on women and became France's first best seller written by a woman. The incredibly prolific Sand went on write ...
