George Sand

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Standard Name: Sand, George
Birth Name: Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin
Married Name: Amantine Aurore Lucile Dudevant
Pseudonym: George Sand
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.
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Violence Flora Tristan
Chazal shot her from behind in the left side at point-blank range. After shooting her, he gave the pistol to a witness and surrendered. FT was carried back to her apartment and surgeons called. Although...
Travel Margaret Fuller
In order to pay for this trip, MF wrote a column titled Things and Thoughts in Europe. In this capacity she travelled through England, Scotland, France and Italy at a time when...
Travel Edith Wharton
EW was accustomed from childhood to European travel and even to living in Europe for years at a time. She and her husband spent something like half of every year abroad.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
From February to April...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Frances Trollope
FT 's political conservatism affected her judgements of literature as well as politics. She forcefully expresses her dislike for republicanism, denounces freedom of the press as the most awful engine that Providence has permitted the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text George Eliot
On 11 February 1848 GE discusses in a letter to John Sibree her views on Hannah More (once admired, now detested as exemplifying the bluestocking woman on display as a kind of freak), Benjamin Disraeli
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Howitt
According to Carl Ray Woodring , the magazine's heroine from first to last was George Sand .
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
137
It discussed every genre of the arts, and had also a strong social conscience. In articles such...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Augusta Ward
Isabel Bretherton is a beautiful but untaught actress from the colonies (born of a Scots father and Italian mother). She falls in love with an Oxford scholar, Eustace Kendal. but is deeply wounded by his...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Augusta Ward
The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan , William Lovett
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Fuller
In her review Miss Barrett 's Poems she praised the English poet's majesty and her poetic vision but noted also her lack of economy and the stiffness of her verse.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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She reviewed works by...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Laura Riding
The original typescript of 200,000 words covered such topics as Joan of Arc , French poets, suicide . . . English romantic poetry, bulls, George Sand , and so on.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Shorter pieces here include many sonnets, the most striking and complex of which are perhaps the two dedicated to George Sand that explore the apparent contradictions of gender and genius. To George Sand. A Desire...
Textual Production Jane Welsh Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle was the first to prepare a collection of JWC 's letters for publication. Shortly after her death in 1866—full of sorrow at her loss and regret at his neglect of her—he began assembling...
Textual Production Matilda Hays
A multi-volume series titled The Works of George Sand appeared, edited by MH and translated by both her and Eliza Ashurst ; this first series of English translations of Sand 's novels ended in December...
Textual Production Matilda Betham-Edwards
Helen Black questioned her closely about her preferences in literature, and learned that Betham-Edwards endeavour[ed] to appreciate all the living novelists, but found the school of Tolstoy , Ibsen , and Zolarepulsive in the...
Textual Production Willa Cather
In the 1920s WC was working for a maximum of three hours a day, banishing her work from her mind during the rest of day, but keeping herself fresh for it. She said her only...

Timeline

11 December 1859: Frenchwoman Angélina Lemoine was acquitted...

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11 December 1859

Frenchwoman Angélina Lemoine was acquitted of the murder of her newborn infant.

April 1860: As Owen Meredith, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton...

Writing climate item

April 1860

As Owen Meredith, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton published his successful verse novelLucile.

By 14 July 1883: Bertha Thomas contributed a biography of...

Women writers item

By 14 July 1883

Bertha Thomas contributed a biography of George Sand to the Eminent Women series.

Texts

Sand, George. Consuelo. L. de Potter, 1843.
Sand, George. Cosima; ou, La haine dans l’amour. F. Bonnaire, 1840.
Sand, George. Elle et lui. L. Hachette, 1859.
Sand, George. Fadette. Translator Hays, Matilda, G. P. Putnam, 1851.
Sand, George. François le champi. A. Cadot, 1848.
Sand, George. Gabriel. F. Bonnaire, 1840.
Hobbes, John Oliver, and George Sand. “George Sand”. Mauprat, P. F. Collier, 1902, p. v - xiii.
Sand, George. Histoire de ma vie. V. Lecou, 1855.
Sand, George. Indiana. J. P. Roret, 1832.
Sand, George. Jacques. F. Bonnaire, 1834.
Sand, George, editor. La Cause du peuple.
Sand, George. La comtesse de Rudolstadt. L. de Potter, 1844.
Sand, George. La mare au diable. Desessart, 1846.
Sand, George. La petite Fadette. Nelson and Calmann Lévy, 1848.
Sand, George. La tour de Percemont. —Marianne. Calmann-Lévy, 1876.
Sand, George. Lélia. H. Dupuy; L. Tenré, 1833.
Sand, George. Mademoiselle La Quintinie. M. Lévy, 1863.
Sand, George. Mauprat. F. Bonnaire, 1837.
Sand, George, and Jules Sandeau. Rose et blanche; ou, La comédienne et la religieuse. B. Renault, 1831.
Sand, George. The Works of George Sand. Translators Hays, Matilda et al., E. Churton, 1847.