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  1. Germaine Brée. O F all the French writers in the 19th century, George Sand. one, critics agree, whose impact upon the society of the surpasses that of her contemporaries and reached an. audience beyond the boundaries of France. Historians of critics and commentators have seemed subsequently fascinated uniquely by the personality of the woman ...

  2. 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 ...

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  4. Summary. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  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. Sand was a diligent letter writer; more than twenty thousand of her letters are still extant. George Sand died on June 8, 1876, of an intestinal occlusion, but not before she had seen the dawn of ...

  8. PDF Cite. George Sand, who was famous during her lifetime primarily as a novelist, earned a living for many years as a journalist. Some of her essays on art, literature, politics, and social ...