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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 · 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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  4. 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 ...

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  5. Mar 29, 2024 · George Sand was not a sociologist or a painter of objects, and yet these occupations played a major role in her domestic and creative life and in her vision of the world once they began to make an impression. This book shows the place they occupied in her daily life and in her relationship with writing.

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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 ...

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