George Sand (1804–1876)
Author of The Devil’s Pool
About the Author
George Sand began life as Aurore Dupin, the daughter of a count and a dressmaker. Educated both on her aristocratic grandmother's estate and in a Parisian convent, at 18 she married Casimer Dudevant, a provincial gentleman whose rough temperament was the opposite of her own, and from whom she show more obtained a separation several years later. At 31 she moved to Paris, where she changed her name and plunged into the bohemian world of French romanticism. Frequently dressed in men's clothing, she participated actively in literary debates, cultural events, and even the revolution of 1848. Sand was friend and correspondent with many of the major artists and writers of her age, including Balzac, Flaubert, and Liszt. Her love affairs with the poet Musset and the composer Chopin were the stuff of legend, chronicled in her own Story of My Life. Sand's immensely popular novels ranged from sentimental stories of wronged women, to utopian socialist fictions, such as her masterpiece in Consuelo, 1842, to explorations of pastoral themes written when she retired, late in life, to her estate in Berry. Though frequently dismissed as overblown or too sentimental, Sand's fiction has recently undergone a revaluation, emerging as an influential body of women's writing. As both a writer and an intellectual personality, Sand is a central figure in nineteenth-century French cultural life. George Sand died in 1876 (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Portrait of George Sand by Auguste Charpentier (1838)
Works by George Sand
The Castle of Pictures: A Grandmother's Tales, Volume One (Castle of Pictures & Other Stories) (1994) 46 copies
Een moeilijke liefde : de correspondentie tussen George Sand en Alfred de Musset en een keuze uit het dagboek van… (1982) 18 copies
My Convent Life: From L'Histoire de Ma Vie, with a new chronology of her life and work (1854) 18 copies
Le Diable a Paris: Paris Et Les Parisiens: M Urs Et Coutumes, Caracteres Et Portraits Des Habitants de Paris ... (2010) 7 copies
Romans : Tome 2 : Lucrezia Floriani ; Le château des désertes ; Les maîtres sonneurs ; Elle et lui ;… (2019) 6 copies
Rakas vanha trubaduuri : George Sandin ja Gustave Flaubertin kirjeenvaihtoa vuosilta 1863-1876 (2007) 5 copies
Romans : Tome 1 : Indiana ; Lélia ; Mauprat ; Pauline ; Isidora ; La mare au diable ; François le champi… (2019) 5 copies
Lei e lui: Paolina: Lavinia 4 copies
Histoire de ma vie 3 copies
En ¤have for sig 3 copies
פדיטה הקטנה 3 copies
Sand: Une hiver à Majorque 3 copies
La famiglia de Germandre 3 copies
La Comtesse de Rudolstadt : Tome 2 2 copies
Consuelo, vol. 1 2 copies
La mare au diable - Niveau 1/A1 - Lecture CLE en Francais Facile - Livre - 600 mots (French Edition) (2017) 2 copies
Wędrowny czeladnik 2 copies
Los caballeros de Bois-Doré novela 2 copies
The Masterpieces of George Sand, Amandine Lucille Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, Now for the First Time Completely… (1900) 2 copies
ばらいろの雲 2 copies
" Mopra". "Oras". 2 copies
La Comtesse de Rudolstadt : Tome 1 2 copies
THE SIN OF MONSIEUR ANTOINE, and LEONE LEONI, Vol I and Vol. II The Masterpieces of George Sand (1901) 2 copies
Contes d'une grand-mère Tome 1 2 copies
At have en have 1 copy
Konsuėlo roman 1 1 copy
Fiche de lecture Indiana de George Sand (Analyse littéraire de référence et résumé complet) (2018) 1 copy
Eseje 1 copy
Ostatnia z Aldinich. T. 2 1 copy
Dzieje mojego życia 1 copy
Ostatnia z Aldinich. T. 1 1 copy
Little Fadette 1 copy
The Shadow And The Substance 1 copy
A Rolling Stone 1 copy
Teverino: A Romance 1 copy
George Sand. La Mare au Diable , roman. Avec une notice biographique... des notes... par Edmond… 1 copy
A Pequena Ivete Livro 1 1 copy
Konsuėlo roman 2 1 copy
3: Juillet 1835 - avril 1837 1 copy
Le Monde des Papillons 1 copy
Wings of Courage — Original Story — 1 copy
Aldo le rimeur 1 copy
HISTOIRE DE MA VIE 1 copy
Histoire de ma vie Tome 4 1 copy
Pauline, suivi de Metella 1 copy
La mare au diable (extraits), avec une notice biographique une notice histori [Texte imprimé] : extraits (1991) 1 copy
?EYTANLI GOL 1 copy
1: 1812-1831 1 copy
2: 1832 - juin 1835 1 copy
4: Mai 1837-mars 1840 1 copy
5: Avril 1840-décembre 1842 1 copy
Un hiver au midi de l'Europe 1 copy
Consuelo I.kötet 1 copy
Consuelo II.kötet 1 copy
HAYATIM 1 copy
L'ultimo amore: romanzo 1 copy
Lanetli Göl 1 copy
Los caballeros del bosque 1 copy
THE PICCININO; THE LAST OF THE ALDINIS, Historic and Romantic Novels by Amadine Lucille Aurore Dupin, Baroness… (1901) 1 copy
Lettres 1 copy
Gesammelte Werke: Romane Novellen Autobiographie Briefe (Vollständige deutsche Ausgaben): Die kleine Fadette… (2015) 1 copy
Sobor' Parizhskoi Bogomateri 1 copy
Le Château de Pictordu: La Reine Coax, le Nuage Rose, les Ailes de Courage, le Géant Yéous (Classic Reprint) (French… (2017) 1 copy
La marchesa 1 copy
La Coupe 1 copy
Oeuvres autobiographiques II 1 copy
Dagbogsblade 1 copy
Dodecaton, ou le livre des douze — Author — 1 copy
Les Don Juan de village 1 copy
Théâtre de Nohant 1 copy
Les Deux frères 1 copy
George Sand. Lettres d'un voyageur extraits. Avec une notice biographique, une notice historique et… (1935) 1 copy
George Sand vallomásai 1 copy
Rosa e Brezza 1 copy
Dvě lásky mladého Horáce 1 copy
Las lavanderas nocturnas 1 copy
My Convent Life -- Translated from "Histoire de ma Vie" By Maria Ellery McKay, with a New Chronology of Her Life and… (1978) 1 copy
Lavinia - Pauline - Kora: Die Geschichten dreier außergewöhnlicher Frauen (German Edition) (2017) 1 copy
פדט הקטנה 1 copy
Romans Champêtres 1 copy
Le Chateau de Pictordu: La reine coax, Le nuage rose, les ailes de Courage, le géant Yéous. (Contes d'une… (1996) 1 copy
Ein Buch der Leidenschaft 1 copy
Konsuela (I II) 1 copy
Mlle. Merquem 1 copy
A nuvem cor de rosa 1 copy
Associated Works
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Contributor, some editions — 554 copies
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2: From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray (2012) — Contributor — 188 copies
La dimension fantastique, Tome 1 : Treize nouvelles de Hoffmann à Claude Seignolle (1998) — Contributor — 70 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Dupin, Amantine Aurore Lucile
- Other names
- Baroness Dudevant
- Birthdate
- 1804-07-01
- Date of death
- 1876-06-08
- Burial location
- grounds of her home, Nohant, near Châteauroux, France
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- France
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Place of death
- Nohant, near Châteauroux, France
- Cause of death
- Intestinal cancer
- Places of residence
- Paris, France
Nohant, near Châteauroux, France
Majorca
Madrid, Spain - Education
- Couvent des Dames augustines anglaises
- Occupations
- novelist
playwright - Relationships
- Chopin, Frederic (lover)
Musset, Alfred de (lover)
Königsmarck, Aurora von (great-great-grandmother)
Madame Dupin (step-great-grandmother) - Short biography
- George Sand, the pen name of Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, was raised by her paternal grandmother, Marie Aurore de Saxe, and educated partly at a convent. In 1822, at the age of 18, she married Baron Casimir Dudevant, with whom she had two children. In 1831, she left her husband and went to Paris, where she wore male attire, smoked in public, and adopted a male pseudonym, among her other gender-defying activities. She had a nearly 10-year love affair with Frédéric Chopin. She became one of the most popular writers in Europe in her own lifetime, and is recognized today as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era.
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Reviews
A Winter in Majorca by George Sand
fiction, Chopin, Majorca, Palma, Valldemossa, tuberculosis, monastery, music
arvalho, belo carvalho, não me expulse. Se eu descer, os lobos que correm na noite irão me comer.
– Saia, Emmi, saia! – retrucou a voz, ainda mais suave.
– Belo carvalho falante – Emmi retrucou também, num tom de súplica –, não me mande para os lobos. Você me salvou dos porcos, foi bonzinho comigo, continue assim. Sou um pobre menino infeliz, não posso nem quero lhe causar mal algum. Acolha-me esta noite: se quiser, irei embora pela manhã.
A voz não retrucou mais, e a lua prateou brandamente as folhas. Emmi concluiu que lhe fora permitido ficar, ou, então, que sonhara as palavras que pensava ter ouvido. Adormeceu – e, coisa estranha, não sonhou mais e dormiu a sono solto até o amanhecer.”
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Escrito no século XIX, O carvalho falante conta as aventuras de um guardador de porcos que, para fugir de uma vida de rejeição e sofrimento, passa a viver no oco de uma árvore encantada.… (more)
– Saia, Emmi, saia! – retrucou a voz, ainda mais suave.
– Belo carvalho falante – Emmi retrucou também, num tom de súplica –, não me mande para os lobos. Você me salvou dos porcos, foi bonzinho comigo, continue assim. Sou um pobre menino infeliz, não posso nem quero lhe causar mal algum. Acolha-me esta noite: se quiser, irei embora pela manhã.
A voz não retrucou mais, e a lua prateou brandamente as folhas. Emmi concluiu que lhe fora permitido ficar, ou, então, que sonhara as palavras que pensava ter ouvido. Adormeceu – e, coisa estranha, não sonhou mais e dormiu a sono solto até o amanhecer.”
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Escrito no século XIX, O carvalho falante conta as aventuras de um guardador de porcos que, para fugir de uma vida de rejeição e sofrimento, passa a viver no oco de uma árvore encantada.… (more)
Marianne is worth reading for its historical perspectives on the value of females,
notable in that Marianne decides to marry the man who has so silently misjudged her.
Not only is Andre depressed and totally self absorbed,
but he has no work, no desire to support himself, and so lives dependent on his Mother
which will transfer to complete dependence on Marianne.
Independent Marianne, judged eccentric because she loves solitude and riding her horse alone,
deserves a stronger mate. Love does not always conquer all...
Why Marianne would choose to marry this guy instead of the more accomplished and fun,
though shallow, Philippe, still feels false.
Where is Henry David Thoreau when he is obviously needed?!?
(Story is preceded by one of the longest introductions ever = 78 pages.)… (more)
notable in that Marianne decides to marry the man who has so silently misjudged her.
Not only is Andre depressed and totally self absorbed,
but he has no work, no desire to support himself, and so lives dependent on his Mother
which will transfer to complete dependence on Marianne.
Independent Marianne, judged eccentric because she loves solitude and riding her horse alone,
deserves a stronger mate. Love does not always conquer all...
Why Marianne would choose to marry this guy instead of the more accomplished and fun,
though shallow, Philippe, still feels false.
Where is Henry David Thoreau when he is obviously needed?!?
(Story is preceded by one of the longest introductions ever = 78 pages.)… (more)
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