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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Mar 9, 2018 · George Sand’s Search for Spirituality. “Since no one was instructing me in religion, it occurred to me I needed one, and I made one for myself. ” – George Sand, History of My Life. 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.
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‘George Sand: A Desire‘ begins with the speakerpraising Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin for her brains and her heart. She takes on the qualities of both man and woman in her writing. Browning calls out Dupin for her choice to be known as George Sand, and then continues on to celebrate the strength it took for Dupin to write as she did, and about what ...
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The speaker begins ‘George Sand: A Desire‘ by introducing the woman to whom this poem is dedicated. Without prior knowledge, understanding the meaning proves difficult, but once one knows that “George Sand” was the pen name of the female poet, Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, the poem’s true nature reveals itself. In the first, fairly well-known line, the speaker addresses Dupin as both a man and a woman. She is “large-brained” in that she is an exceptional writer, and she is “large-hearted” bec...
Lines 5-8
In the second half of the octave, the speaker states what she “desires” to happen to, and for, Dupin. This “wish” is solely metaphoricalin nature, but it does vividly represent how Browning felt about Dupin’s contributions, as a writer and as a woman, to the craft. She wants, in the circus that is the modern world, for there to be a brief clap of thunder over the heads of those “applauding” the world’s norms. From this thunder, Dupin’s strength would be celebrated. It would be as if “two pini...
Lines 9-14
These thoughts continue into the last six lines. These “swan” wings will come from Dupin’s shoulders and, perhaps, lift her up above the crowd so that all may see who she truly is. She will be as an angel, and will, in her beauty, “amaze the place / With holier light!” The entire world will be stunned to see her and Dupin will finally have the recognition she deserves. The reader’s of literature, and the promoters of gender norms, will see that “woman’s claim” on writing is just as strong as...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in 1806 in Durham, England. She was the firstborn out of twelve children, was educated at home through the works of Milton and Shakespeare. She also began writing poetry at a young age, finishing her first epic poemat the age of twelve. Browning also suffered from a number of maladies from a young age, particular...
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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 ...
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 ...
