Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
George Sand
-
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.
She praised Barrett for paying tribute to George Sand and points out that the poems address two of the leading topics of the day—War and Monopoly.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
However, she does criticize Browning's poems for their melancholic...
Family and Intimate relationships
Rose Allatini
Scott believed that he and Allatini were continuing a relationship begun in an earlier life in which neither of us was English . . . Rose was an authoress and I a composer and had...
Textual Features
Matilda Betham-Edwards
MBE
observed in her introduction to French Fireside Poetry that in France the poetesses have hitherto taken lower rank than the great prose-writers Sévigné
and Sand
. She mentions but does not translate the unhappy...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Isa Blagden
To George Sand
: On Her Interview with Elizabeth Barrett Browning contrasts the two poets and their work. IB
represents Barrett Browning as a paragon of stainless femininity, Sand as a fettered maniac with a...
Author summary
Mathilde Blind
MB
was one of the leading poets of the later nineteenth century; her burning sense of political and social injustice runs like a unifying thread through her work. Her poetry combines great beauty of sound...
Textual Features
Mathilde Blind
Blind celebrates Eliot's intellectual as well as her literary eminence. She gives her introductory chapter to issues of gender, referring back to Eliot's 1854 essay on this topic, Woman in France: Madame de Sablé....
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'...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Waters argues that MEB
ought not to be condemned for clichés that she herself helped to establish. Rather we should examine them and the genre of the detective or sensation novel as an index of...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Ishmael is set in Brittany and Paris, mainly between 1850 and 1867, during the reign of Louis Napoleon
. The title character is the son of a Breton aristocrat, despised by his father on...
Intertextuality and Influence
Charlotte Brontë
Given CB
's intensive reading in French in the 1840s, some critics have concluded that she read George Sand
during the period when she was moving her writing from the world of the juvenilia to...
Textual Production
Charlotte Brontë
CB
's comments on Jane Austen
, whom she first read at this time, reflect her own literary priorities: She does her business of delineating the surface of the lives of genteel English people curiously...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
EBB
visited George Sand
(whom she had long admired) at her home in Paris.
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press.
252
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton.
260-1
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This friendship was for EBB
the major event of this winter; she found the fact that Fuller had known George Sand
a strong inducement to visit Paris.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton.
239-40
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
By 1832 she had read Mme de Staël
's novel of the romantic female artist, Corinne, three times and claimed the immortal book ought to be reread annually.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press.
3: 25
She strongly admired the...
Timeline
11 December 1859: Frenchwoman Angélina Lemoine was acquitted...
Building item
11 December 1859
Frenchwoman Angélina Lemoine
was acquitted of the murder of her newborn infant.
April 1860: As Owen Meredith, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton...