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| Name: |
George Sand | | Variant Name: |
Armandine Aurore Lucille Dupin | | Birth Date: |
July 1, 1804 | | Death Date: |
June 9, 1876 | | Place of Birth: |
Paris, France | | Place of Death: |
Nohant, France | | Nationality: |
French | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
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Biography of George Sand
1,025 words, approx. 3 pages
 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...
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Biography of George Sand
8,746 words, approx. 29 pages
 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...
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Biography of George Sand
8,337 words, approx. 28 pages
 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...



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George Sand Quotes
106 words, approx. 1 pages
 Every historian discloses a new horizon. A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good. One approaches the journey's end. But...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Sand, George Summary
22,477 words, approx. 75 pages 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...
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George Sand Information
1,626 words, approx. 5 pages
 Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baronne Dudevant (July 1, 1804 – June 8, 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and...




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 The Economist (US)
What a woman; George Sand.(France remembers George Sand)
07/31/2004: 692 words, approx. 2 pages 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...
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 The Historian
George Sand.(Book review)
12/22/2005: 558 words, approx. 2 pages 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...
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 AP News
Today in history - Sept. 22
9/22/2007: 575 words, approx. 2 pages 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...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Isabelle Hoog Naginski
10,908 words, approx. 36 pages
 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.
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Critical Essay by Nancy K. Miller
9,767 words, approx. 33 pages
 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.
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Critical Essay by Kathryn J. Crecelius
9,700 words, approx. 32 pages
 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.


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