Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
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Family and Intimate relationships | George Sand | GS
met twenty-two-year-old Alfred de Musset
, a poet and a colleague at the Revue des Deux Mondes; they began a stormy and much publicized two-year affair. Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976. 98 Cate, Curtis. George Sand. Houghton Mifflin, 1975. 263-5 |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Sand | In Venice, GS
had a romantic liaison with a doctor, Pietro Pagello
, who was attending Alfred de Musset
. Cate, Curtis. George Sand. Houghton Mifflin, 1975. 296 |
Material Conditions of Writing | George Sand | GS
's next novel, Jacques, was written while her affair with de Musset
came to a close. The abject entanglement with de Musset proved useful material for at least ten of her books. In... |
Material Conditions of Writing | George Sand | On the night that GS
left de Musset
, she began writing the novel that became Mauprat, published in 1837. Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976. 120-1 Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage, 2001. 248 Bibliothèque Nationale de France. http://www.bnf.fr/. |
Reception | George Sand | Readers were sharply divided in their responses to Lélia. Negative reactions were summed up by a reviewer named Capo de Feuillide
who warned women readers away from the corruptive qtd. in Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976. 92 |
Textual Features | Mathilde Blind | MB
depicts Byron with her customary vigour and imaginative engagement: her introduction to the poetry volume is a blend of analysis and praise. She places him politically, as having in his veins an ancestral witches'... |
Textual Features | Anita Brookner | Its subjects are Ingres
, Delacroix
and Antoine-Jean Gros
, Musset
, Baudelaire
, Edmond
and Jules Goncourt
, Zola
and Huysmans
. That is, AB
has returned to take a different view of the... |
Textual Production | Margaret Oliphant | MO
had already written on Dante the previous year, in a book about Florence. This series, like its predecessor, Ancient Classics for English Readers, was designed to aid self-education for those ignorant of languages... |
Textual Production | George Sand | Two years after Alfred de Musset
's death, GS
published Elle et lui, detailing her side of her affair with him, and vividly recalling details from twenty-five years earlier. Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976. 96, 121 Athenæum. J. Lection. 1650 (1859): 776 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Wolff sees this novel as working out the Zola
theory of hereditary destiny. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979. 308 |
Travel | George Sand | The affair between GS
and Chopin is generally associated with Majorca, as her affair with de Musset
is assoicated with Venice. |
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