The French novelist George Sand (1804-1876) was the most successful woman writer of her century. Her novels present a large fresco of romantic sentiment and 19th-century life, especially in its more pastoral aspects. George Sand was born Armandine...

For seventy-five years after her death, George Sand was preemptorily dismissed as a writer of adolescent fiction, not worthy of serious study, "une écriveuse" (a woman scribbler). The only titles that had made an impact were La Mare au diable...

George Sand (Armantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin) is often remembered for her work as a novelist, but she devoted much of her abundant energy to drama and the theater as well, producing twenty-one plays for the professional theaters in Paris and at least...

Acelebrated writer and controversial personality of nineteenth-century France, Sand wrote prolifically in a variety of genres, producing over eighty novels, three collections of short stories, a twenty-volume autobiography, numerous essays, twenty-five...

Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baronne Dudevant (July 1, 1804 – June 8, 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and...

Time for another 20 pages France remembers a prolific author AS WRITERS go, few lives are as well known as that of George Sand. Cross-dresser, divorcee, writer under a man's name, lover of Alfred de Musset and Frederic Chopin: no wonder...

George Sand. By Elizabeth Harlan. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 359. $35.00.) The author of this engaging new biography of George Sand (born Aurore Dupin), one of nineteenth-century France's most prolific and celebrated writers, brings an original perspective to...

Today is Saturday, Sept. 22, the 265th day of 2007. There are 100 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 22, 1776, Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British during the Revolutionary War.On this date:In 1789, Congress authorized the office...

In the following extract, Naginski argues that although Sand's contemporaries did not always see her as a serious writer, Sand had a well-developed and clearly articulated poetics, which emphasized the ideal over the real and the rural over the urban and which was founded upon an androgynous vision that revolted against socially sanctioned gender inequality.

In this study of Valentine, Miller explores the spatial and sexual economy of the text to highlight Sand's attempts to provide an alternative to the female plot of marriage within a patriarchal framework.

In the following excerpt, Crecelius focuses on Lélia, a novel that has evoked extreme reactions from critics. According to Crecelius, these sharp differences are caused by the varied generic traditions that the novel draws upon to explore the dark side of Sand's imagination.