Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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
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...
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...
Textual Production
Muriel Jaeger
As her second work of non-fiction MJ
published a biographical collection, Experimental Lives from Cato
to George Sand, which appeared in the USA as Adventures in Living.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production
Winsome Pinnock
For radio WP
wrote a play called Her Father's Daughter, 1998, and adapted the short story Let Them Call It Jazz by Jean Rhys
(dramatization 1997), the novel Indiana by George Sand
(1832; BBC Radio Four
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...