George Sand

01 July 1804 - 08 June 1876

Standard Name: Sand, George

Birth Name: Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin

Married Name: Amantine Aurore Lucile Dudevant

Pseudonym: George Sand

French writer George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) wrote over one hundred novels and plays. Her correspondence fills twenty-five volumes. She averaged two novels a year after 1831. British writers including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and George Eliot were strongly influenced by her writing, and her notorious life became one of the benchmarks by which women writers were judged.

Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.

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Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Cultural formation	Matilda Hays	MH wore unconventional clothes, a half cross-dressing likely inspired by George Sand , which attracted frequent comment. She dressed like a man from the waist up, wearing tight, lapeled bodices, handsome waistcoats, and elegant bow...
Dedications	Matilda Hays	MH published in New YorkFadette, A Domestic Story from the French, her translation of George Sand 's novel, with a dedication to Charlotte Cushman , True Artist and Yet Truer Woman ....
Education	Matilda Hays	As is evident from her later translations of George Sand , she was fluent in French. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Education	Jessie Fothergill	She acquired much knowledge through her voracious consumption of books: I loved books, and read all that I could get hold of, and have had many a rebuke for poring over those books instead of...
Education	Edith J. Simcox	Soundly educated, EJS acquired a good knowledge of French and German at school, where she considered herself outrageously defiant and disobedient. McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press, 1961. 6 She belonged emphatically to George Sand 's class of diables and was generally...
Family and Intimate relationships	Mary Augusta Ward	MAW 's father, Thomas Arnold , was the second son and namesake of the eminent Victorian headmaster Thomas Arnold. Matthew Arnold was his elder brother. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 2 Prodigally gifted, Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 2 Thomas Arnold lived a life...
Family and Intimate relationships	Rose Allatini	Scott believed that he and Allatini were continuing a relationship begun in an earlier life in which neither of us was English . . . Rose was an authoress and I a composer and had...
Family and Intimate relationships	Mary Taylor	MT 's father, Joshua Taylor , came from a wool-trading family based in the West Riding of Yorkshire; he often travelled to the Continent on business and was fluent in French and Italian. He...
Friends, Associates	Jane Welsh Carlyle	Markus also speculates that Jane is the inspiration for the unhappily married character of Alice Bryant in Jewsbury's novel The Half Sisters. Markus, Julia. Across An Untried Sea: Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time. Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. 141 Jane helped edit the novel for Geraldine, but was later dismayed...
Friends, Associates	Bessie Rayner Parkes	BRP knew personally and corresponded with many of the Victorian intelligentsia. In addition to her Langham Place associates already mentioned, her literary friends and acquaintances included Matilda Hays , Harriet Martineau , Anthony Trollope ,...
Friends, Associates	Violet Hunt	VH greatly admired West , and used their interaction as a spring board from which she delved into issues about women and writing. In 1926, for instance, she compared West physically and intellectually to George Sand
Friends, Associates	Susan Tweedsmuir	When ST 's parents and Leslie Stephen tried to nurture a childhood friendship between Susan, Vanessa (later Bell), and Virginia (later Woolf), the relationship never took root. As an adult, however (having admired Woolf's early...
Friends, Associates	Geraldine Jewsbury	GJ was also a friend, even before she settled in London, of Eliza Ashurst (a translator of George Sand ), whose father was a Radical, the originator of the Penny Post, and a friend...
Friends, Associates	Adelaide Kemble	The friends of her married life included the artist Leighton , sculptor Hattie Hosmer , authors Charles Hamilton Aïdé , Henry Greville , William Makepeace Thackeray , and Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning . She...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	EBB visited George Sand (whom she had long admired) at her home in Paris. Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957. 252 Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990. 260-1

Timeline

11 December 1859

Frenchwoman Angélina Lemoine was acquitted of the murder of her newborn infant.

Hartman, Mary S. Victorian Murderesses. Schocken Books, 1977.

52-84

April 1860

As Owen Meredith, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton published his successful verse novel Lucile.

“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.

By 14 July 1883

Bertha Thomas contributed a biography of George Sand to the Eminent Women series.

Athenæum. J. Lection.

2907 (1883): 44

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Texts

Sand, George. Consuelo. L. de Potter, 1843, 8 vols.

Sand, George. Cosima; ou, La haine dans l’amour. F. Bonnaire, 1840.

Sand, George. Elle et lui. L. Hachette, 1859.

Sand, George. Fadette. Translator Hays, Matilda, G. P. Putnam, 1851.

Sand, George. François le champi. A. Cadot, 1848, 2 vols.

Sand, George. Gabriel. F. Bonnaire, 1840.

Hobbes, John Oliver, and George Sand. “George Sand”. Mauprat, P. F. Collier, 1902, p. v - xiii.

Sand, George. Histoire de ma vie. V. Lecou, 1855, 20 vols.

Sand, George. Indiana. J. P. Roret, 1832, 2 vols.

Sand, George. Jacques. F. Bonnaire, 1834, 2 vols.

Sand, George, editor. La Cause du peuple.

Sand, George. La comtesse de Rudolstadt. L. de Potter, 1844, 5 vols.

Sand, George. La mare au diable. Desessart, 1846.

Sand, George. La petite Fadette. Nelson and Calmann Lévy, 1848.

Sand, George. La tour de Percemont. —Marianne. Calmann-Lévy, 1876.

Sand, George. Lélia. H. Dupuy; L. Tenré, 1833, 2 vols.

Sand, George. Mademoiselle La Quintinie. M. Lévy, 1863.

Sand, George. Mauprat. F. Bonnaire, 1837, 2 vols.

Sand, George, and Jules Sandeau. Rose et blanche; ou, La comédienne et la religieuse. B. Renault, 1831, 5 vols.

Sand, George. The Works of George Sand. Translators Hays, Matilda et al., E. Churton, 1847, 6 vols.