George Sand

George Sand

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‘George Sand’ (Aurore Dupin, 1804-1876) was France’s bestselling writer, rivalled in her time only by Victor Hugo. She was at the centre of French intellectual and artistic life: her circle included Liszt and Delacroiz, Blazac and Flaubert. Yet she was known as much for her excessive life as for her plays, stories and enduring novels like Indiana, Lelia and Mauprat. The daughter of a prostitute and an aristocrat, Sand grew up acutely aware of social injustice and prejudice. Convent-educated, she became a mischievous, flamboyant rebel: her long, troubled romance with Chopin was just one of many affairs with well-known figures, but her most desperate love was for a beautiful actress.

Additional information

Weight0.299 kg
Dimensions2.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099552051

About The Author

Belinda Jack is the author of an acclaimed biography of George Sand and Beatrice's Spell: The Enduring Legend of Beatrice Cenci.

Jack's narrative of Sand's helter-skelter life – one so packed with love affairs and work and friendships and quarrels and travel that she seemed almost literally never to sleep – is swift, lucid and emotionally engaging…in looking behind the amazing spectacle at the vexed events and complex ideas that created it, Belinda Jack has written an illuminating and engaging book

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Belinda Jack's excellent biography sets this life out against the back-drop of empire, republic, commune…She has made a fine use of rich material

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