George Sand

Felicia Gordon (University of Cambridge)

Ed. by David Williams, University of Sheffield
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.05: French Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth-Century , 1800-1900.
Vol. editors: David Elwyn Evans (University of St Andrews), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Elisabeth Gerwin (University of Lethbridge), Nigel Harkness (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield), Jennifer Yee (University of Oxford)

Dates

Born 1 Jul 1804
Died 8 Aug 1876
Activity 1831-1876

Places

Born in France
Active in France; Italy; Spain

Cultural Identities

Feminist

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Playwright / Dramatist
Travel writer

Resources

Sand's Works

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George Sand (born 1 July, 1804; died 8 June, 1876), the pen name of Aurore Amadine Lucie Dupin, Baronne Dudevant, was one of the most widely read and venerated novelists in nineteenth-century Europe. Thanks to her unorthodox personal life (she left her husband after eight years of marriage for a series of lovers that included Musset and Chopin), she was to many an object of scandal, as much for her adoption of masculine dress and cigar smoking as for her numerous liaisons. As a writer, she enjoyed a European-wide popularity. Her novels, numbering more than fifty, which recount the travails of heroes and heroines who seek passionate love, flee the tyranny of unhappy marriage or struggle against class constraints, struck a chord with her contemporaries. The Russian intelligentsia devoured…

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Citation: Gordon, Felicia. "George Sand". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 May 2003 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3925, accessed 24 November 2024.]