GS
published La mare au diable, a novel dedicated to Chopin
.
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
212
Cate, Curtis. George Sand. Houghton Mifflin, 1975.
792
Family and Intimate relationships
George Sand
GS
began her celebrated nine-year relationship with the musician Frédéric Chopin
.
Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage, 2001.
279
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
178, 191
Family and Intimate relationships
Rose Allatini
Scott believed that he and Allatini were continuing a relationship begun in an earlier life in which neither of us was English . . . Rose was an authoress and I a composer and had...
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
204
Around this time JWC
also met Frédéric François Chopin
, who played her piano, and Caroline Norton
.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
205
Intertextuality and Influence
George Sand
Chopin
was influential in the composition of GS
's novels during these years. He contributed largely to the musical background of Consuelo, for example.
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
212
Publishing
Ethel Lilian Voynich
ELV
translated from French, Polish and Russian the collection of Chopin
's letters collected by Henryk Opienski
, entitled Chopin's Letters, for publication at New York. She also supplied notes and a preface.
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.
Gray, Anne, and Pam Blevins. The World of Women in Classical Music. WordWorld Publications, 2007, pp. 876-7.
877
Kennedy, Gerry. The Booles & The Hintons: Two dynasties that helped shape the modern world. Cork University Press, 2016.
207
Textual Features
Frances Cornford
Many of the poems in Mountains and Molehills evince a melancholic nostalgia, offering speakers who try to capture fleeting moments of loss, of wonder, and of memory. In Grand Ballet, the poem's speaker describes...
Textual Production
Laurence Alma-Tadema
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
's Chopin
: A Discourse, originally written in Polish for the centenary of the composer's birth, was published at London in LAT
's English translation.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Travel
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Anne Thackeray (later ATR
) visited Paris (her former home) with her grandmother. While there she met Chopin
.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981.
33-5
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Texts
Chopin, Frédéric François. Chopin’s Letters. Translator Voynich, Ethel Lilian, A. A. Knopf, 1931, p. x, 240, iv.