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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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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Friends, Associates Jane Welsh Carlyle
Markus also speculates that Jane is the inspiration for the unhappily married character of Alice Bryant in Jewsbury's novel The Half Sisters.
Markus, Julia. Across An Untried Sea: Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time. Alfred A. Knopf.
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Jane helped edit the novel for Geraldine, but was later dismayed...
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...
Literary responses Willa Cather
A review by Randolph Bourne in the USA levelled much the same criticisms as William Heinemann in England.
Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf.
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H. L. Mencken , however, thought this book still more competent, more searching and convincing, better...
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...
Textual Production Mary Collyer
A probably pirated Life and Adventures of Indiana, the Virtuous Orphan, appeared, a version of Marivaux 's La vie de Marianne designed to rival MC 's Virtuous Orphan; or, The Life of Marianne...
Leisure and Society Charlotte Dempster
During one of her trips to Paris, CD attended a performance of a play by George Sand . Sand's work, she thought, did not suit the stage: behind the footlights you miss all that makes...
Intertextuality and Influence Isak Dinesen
Many of ID 's favourite motifs appear here fully formed: cross-dressing, siblings of opposite sexes who seem like aspects of each other, royal personages (Danish) corrupted by patriarchy, young women threatened by misogynistic patriarchy, other...
Intertextuality and Influence George Douglas
People in Cherry Garth think Denis strange and unladylike; Celia dissembles her jealousy, but does not forgive; Denis's only sympathiser is the Jewish farmer Octave Von Donop, a close friend of Tom's and another avowed...
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
Literary responses George Eliot
On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever
Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble.
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), but the ending of The Mill on the Floss...
Textual Production Eva Figes
Early on, EF began to translate from German. In 1960, Longmans published her English version of Martin Walser 's Ehen in Philippsburg as a novel entitled The Gadarene Club. In her highly productive year...
Education Jessie Fothergill
She acquired much knowledge through her voracious consumption of books: I loved books, and read all that I could get hold of, and have had many a rebuke for poring over those books instead of...
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...
Friends, Associates Margaret Fuller
Her travels in England introduced her to Mary Howitt and Thomas Carlyle , and she visited her old acquaintance Harriet Martineau . In Paris she had significant meetings with George Sand and the Polish poet...

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