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Jun 8, 2015 · On June 8, 1876, the great French novelist, memoirist, and playwright Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, better known as George Sand, took her last breath five weeks before her seventy-second birthday. Over the course of her long and prolific career, she had touched millions of readers and influenced generations of writers.
Mar 9, 2018 · “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.
Her first independent novel, Indiana (1832), was written. at the instigation of Delatouche, and the world-famous pseudonym George (originally Georges) Sand was adopted as a. compromise between herself and her partner. The " George " connoted a Berrichon as " David " does a Welshman.
Mar 1, 2008 · So, nearly thirty years on, to read the vivid testimony of George Sand's actual letters to her lover (carefully retained for future publication) was to have all questions reopened – questions of taste, veracity, motive, and of the indelicacies of parading such explicit intimacies.
- Jean Gooder
- 2008
Nov 27, 2018 · George Sand’s Only Children’s Book: A Touching Parable of Choosing Kindness and Generosity Over Cynicism and Greed, with Stunning Illustrations by Russian Artist Gennady Spirin – The Marginalian.
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.
Aug 21, 1999 · Sat 21 Aug 1999 19.34 EDT. George Sand: A Woman's Life Writ Large. Forget the cigar. Forget Chopin. Dismiss the thought that you have never read any of her 80-odd novels and short stories, and...