Biographies

Cate, Curtis. George Sand: A Biography, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975, 812 p.

Provides an in-depth look at Sand's life and work.

Winegarten, Renée. The Double Life of George Sand, Woman and Writer. New York: Basic Books, 1978, 339 p.

Critical biography of Sand, examining in particular her struggle to understand herself as a woman and a human being.

Criticism

Barry, Joseph. Infamous Woman: The Life of George Sand. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977, 436 p.

Addresses Sand's achievement in terms of her works and the events of her life, asserting that she was "quintessentially the modern woman."

Brée, Germaine. "George Sand: The Fictions of Autobiography." Nineteenth-Century French Studies 4, no. 4 (summer 1976): 438-49.

Argues that Sand's autobiography and fiction constitute attempts to define herself by integrating the opposing tendencies represented by the two mother figures in her life.

Crecelius, Kathryn J. "Writing a Self: From Aurore Dudevant to George Sand...