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George Sand’s novels did much to shape the sensibilities of the young people who welcomed the February Revolution. During March and April, she helped prepare the election of a Constituent Assembly by writing “Bulletins” published by the Interior Minister Ledru-Rollin. Her voluminous correspondence illustrates vividly the enthusiasm of ...
Feb 13, 2024 · George Sand: The Radical and Revolutionary Female Writer of France. 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 ...
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Mar 31, 2022 · 5.1 Premise. George Sand is essentially our contemporary. This no audacious statement. It is simply a matter of recognising the genius of an anticipator, opening up a sense of closeness, of reassuring commonality, leading, perhaps beyond the commonplace and beyond the legends regarding a woman remembered because her ‘clothes’ gave rise to ...
- Milena Gammaitoni
George Sand—to break the mold and become herself—was perhaps the most feminist act of the nineteenth century.” In addition, Gérard Roubichou, Cultural Attaché to the French Embassy, presented an award to actress Rosemary Harris, who had brought George Sand to life on the TV screens of millions of Americans. Ever interested in the George ...
Mar 1, 2008 · A month later, on 8 December, he sent a long piece on George Sand to the Times Literary Supplement – a review of the third volume of Wladimir Karénine's biography, published in Paris in 1912. 2 The close conjunction of these two topics highlights some of James's key preoccupations over his troubled but highly productive seventieth year ...
- Jean Gooder
- 2008
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 ...
Apr 27, 2018 · 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. Drawing on recent French and English biographies of Sand as well as her novels, plays ...
