Prosper Mérimée

They became lovers and also literary collaborators, who together created the pseudonym Jules Sand for their collaborative writing; she later used the last name in her newly-constructed pseudonym of George Sand. This name far outlasted...

MS also met the leading women writers of her later years: Jane Porter , Catherine Gore , Caroline Norton , and LEL . She was friendly, too, with Thomas Moore , Prosper Mérimée , Washington Irving

GJ 's later social circle included many writers: Sydney, Lady Morgan , who became a close friend and for whom GJ acted as amanuensis; author Lady Llanover ; author and publisher Douglas Jerrold ; and...

The short-story volume Something Wrong includes Man-Size in Marble, a ghost story set around the actual Brenzett Church in Romney Marsh.

In the midst of a short, brutish affair with Prosper Mérimée and an alleged one with actress Marie Dorval , GS oversaw publication of her notorious novel Lélia.

Its preface Notice to the Public, however, gives her identity away by discussing the authenticity of late instalments of HW 's Memoirs. An Inroduction relating the genesis of the novel is equally transparent...