The Intimate Journal of George Sand

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Cassandra Editions, 1977 - Biography & Autobiography - 198 pages
These selections from George Sand's journals form an integrated whole and show Sand as a woman, lover, mother, artist, politician, chatelaine, and friend. Sand's journal writing is thought by many to be her most expressive and natural; here the artist's most complex and interesting character is revealed: George Sand herself.

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Contents

NOTES ON THE JOURNAL TO MUSSET by Marie Jenney Howe
3
PREFACE by Aurore Sand
14
PREFACE TO PIFFOËL JOURNAL by Aurore Sand
49
Copyright

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About the author (1977)

George Sand is the pen name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, a 19th century French novelist and memoirist. Sand is best known for her novels Indiana, Lilia, and Consuelo, and for her memoir A Winter in Majorca, in which she reflects on her time on the island with Chopin in 1838-39. A champion of the poor and working classes, Sand was an early socialist who published her own newspaper using a workers' co-operative and scorned gender conventions by wearing men's clothing and smoking tobacco in public. George Sand died in France in 1876.

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