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, 1976.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Olivia Manning
After her return to England she sometimes wrote for the BBC
(with which her husband was now a producer), providing scripts for the long-running serial Mrs. Dale's Diary, one number in the series A...
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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...
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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...
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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, http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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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
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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, 1952.
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.
