Description
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.
About the Author
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, Lélia, 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.