George Sand

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French writer George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) wrote over one hundred novels and plays. Her correspondence fills twenty-five volumes. She averaged two novels a year after 1831. British writers including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and George Eliot were strongly influenced by her writing, and her notorious life became one of the benchmarks by which women writers were judged.
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
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Black and white photograph of George Sand by Nadar, 1864. She is seated, wearing a broad skirt and matching poncho top in thin stripes dress with a dark blouse underneath, a tassel on a long string around her neck, and dangling earrings. Her dark hair, greying a little along the centre parting, is jaw-length and curly.

Milestones

1 July 1804
The future GS was born in Paris, where she was in due course christened Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin .
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
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By mid-October 1854
GS 's tremendously successful autobiography, Histoire de ma vie, published this year in France, began to appear in English translation; further volumes followed.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870.
Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
1876
GS completed her final novel, Marianne, and began Albine, which she left unfinished at the seventh chapter.
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
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8 June 1876
GS died at Nohant, her ancestral home, possibly of cancer.
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
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Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage, 2001.
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Biography

Birth and Family

1 July 1804
The future GS was born in Paris, where she was in due course christened Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin .
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
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