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
Residence Ouida
Ouida , with her mother , moved from her previous London home to a main-floor suite at the city's fashionable Langham Hotel , where she entertained in a salon style which was probably inspired by George Sand .
Jordan, Jane. “Ouida: The Enigma of a Literary Identity”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 75-105.
78-9
Friends, Associates Bessie Rayner Parkes
BRP knew personally and corresponded with many of the Victorian intelligentsia. In addition to her Langham Place associates already mentioned, her literary friends and acquaintances included Matilda Hays , Harriet Martineau , Anthony Trollope ,...
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
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.
197
Intertextuality and Influence Michèle Roberts
The title story uses mud or muddy almost thirty times. MR writes, as always, as a feminist; these stories occupy a borderline between the self-making of women and their appropriation into patriarchal stories. She enjoys...
Intertextuality and Influence Michèle Roberts
The French side of MR 's heritage includes influence from George Sand and Colette .
Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, pp. 119-34.
119
In a recent interview she stresses the intimate connection, in her view, between memory and creativity, and the fact...
Textual Features Mary Seacole
Her passing remarks on gender are also of interest. Her descriptions of notables who came through Cruces in Panama include an account of opera singer Catherine Hayes , and a vivid portrait of dancer and...
Education Edith J. Simcox
Soundly educated, EJS acquired a good knowledge of French and German at school, where she considered herself outrageously defiant and disobedient.
McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press.
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She belonged emphatically to George Sand 's class of diables and was generally...
Material Conditions of Writing Harriet Beecher Stowe
HBS used her earlier travels in Europe as material for a travel guide for Americans. She had met Germaine de Staël and Elizabeth Gaskell while in Europe, and had voraciously read everything by George Sand
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Taylor
MT 's father, Joshua Taylor , came from a wool-trading family based in the West Riding of Yorkshire; he often travelled to the Continent on business and was fluent in French and Italian. He...
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...
Reception Flora Tristan
Some personal comments in the book had lasting repercussions. In her opening chapter, FT criticizes French writer George Sand for writing under a male pseudonym and for softening her social critique of women's position by...
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...
Friends, Associates Susan Tweedsmuir
When ST 's parents and Leslie Stephen tried to nurture a childhood friendship between Susan, Vanessa (later Bell), and Virginia (later Woolf), the relationship never took root. As an adult, however (having admired Woolf's early...
Intertextuality and Influence Susan Tweedsmuir
The opening proper of this volume invokes with some trepidation George Sand 's statement that there is nothing more tedious than the dregs of an old régime.
Tweedsmuir, Susan. A Winter Bouquet. G. Duckworth.
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Again the structure of the book is...

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