GEORGE SAND
Napoleon in exile declared that were he again on the
throne he should make a point of spending two hours
a day in conversation with women, from whom there
was much to be learnt. He h...
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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 p...
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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 titl...
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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...
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George Sand
George Sand