Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger.
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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.
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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. 96 |
| 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... |
| 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. 141 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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'... |
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