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  1. 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 ...

  2. Novelist George Sand (Judy Davis) falls in love with composer Frédéric Chopin ( Hugh Grant ). She tries to profess her love for him at a weekend hosted by pretentious, artistically minded Duchess D'Antan (Dame Emma Thompson) for famous musicians, artists, and writers of the day. The gentle and sickly Chopin is wary of the outspoken Sand, but ...

  3. Feb 13, 2024 · Born Amantine Lucille Aurore Dupont, George Sand has been compared with George Eliot who also wrote under a male pseudonym.They both wrote of weak, dishonest men who somehow managed to seduce women, but whereas Eliot wrote with her head, and wrote just five novels in her lifetime, Sand wrote passionately and spontaneously from her heart, producing eighty novels.

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  5. Jun 8, 2015 · George Sand was one of the most brilliant, stern and just representatives of that category of the contemporaneous Western new men who, when they appeared, started with a direct negation of those “positive” acquisitions which brought to a close the activities of the bloody French — more correctly, European — revolution of the end of the ...

  6. Analysis. Indiana was the novel that launched the phenomenally successful career of nineteenth-century French author George Sand. In her preface, Sand explains that she wrote without any plan in ...

  7. Mar 9, 2018 · George Sand (1804-1876) is known to modern readers as a symbol of feminism, a woman who challenged patriarchal values through her writings and her life. Sand left her husband, took multiple lovers, dressed like a man, smoked cigarettes, and wrote novels, essays, and plays in which she defined herself apart from the social conventions that ...

  8. Sand was a diligent letter writer; more than twenty thousand of her letters are still extant. George Sand died on June 8, 1876, of an intestinal occlusion, but not before she had seen the dawn of ...