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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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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  6. Mar 29, 2024 · Blessed with genius, success, and the love of Europe's most famous-and infamous-woman novelist, George Sand, Chopin's years of triumph ended with his expulsion from paradise: less than two decades after his conquest of Paris, the composer lay destitute and dying in the arms of Sand's estranged daughter, Solange.

  7. Mar 11, 2021 · 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 ...

  8. Article History. Lélia, novel by George Sand, published in 1833. It shocked contemporary readers with a heroine who, like Sand herself, was an iconoclastic, intellectual woman who scorned society’s rules. Independent and sensual, Lélia has had many lovers. Now repelled by physical passion, which represents the means by which men dominate ...