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.
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...
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...
Education
Matilda Hays
As is evident from her later translations of George Sand
, she was fluent in French.
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.
Dedications
Matilda Hays
MH
published in New YorkFadette, A Domestic Story from the French, her translation of George Sand
's novel, with a dedication to Charlotte Cushman
, True Artist and Yet Truer Woman ....
Cultural formation
Matilda Hays
MH
wore unconventional clothes, a half cross-dressing likely inspired by George Sand
, which attracted frequent comment. She dressed like a man from the waist up, wearing tight, lapeled bodices, handsome waistcoats, and elegant bow...