George Sand
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Book: Good
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Pages: Good
She smoked cigars, wore trousers, took lovers freely, and wrote over seventy novels — George Sand was the most scandalous and celebrated woman in nineteenth-century France, and J. M. Scott's biography presents her extraordinary life with the full force it deserves. Born Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin in 1804, she reinvented herself under a male pseudonym and became a titan of Romantic literature, forging passionate relationships with Frédéric Chopin and Alfred de Musset while championing the causes of women's rights, republicanism, and the rural poor. Scott chronicles her turbulent marriages, her relentless literary output, and the sheer audacity with which she defied every convention of her age. Beyond the biography of a single life, this portrait illuminates the entire cultural landscape of Romantic-era Europe, situating Sand at the crossroads of art, politics, and gender. Scott's prose is measured and authoritative, drawing on the rich correspondence and memoirs Sand left behind to reveal a woman of profound contradictions — tender and fierce, idealistic and pragmatic. Published by Heron Books in their distinguished collector's series, this volume stands as a compelling introduction to a writer whose influence on literature and feminism remains quietly revolutionary, and whose defiant life raises a question that still resonates: what does society do with a woman who refuses to be contained?
Author: J. M. Scott
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
She smoked cigars, wore trousers, took lovers freely, and wrote over seventy novels — George Sand was the most scandalous and celebrated woman in nineteenth-century France, and J. M. Scott's biography presents her extraordinary life with the full force it deserves. Born Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin in 1804, she reinvented herself under a male pseudonym and became a titan of Romantic literature, forging passionate relationships with Frédéric Chopin and Alfred de Musset while championing the causes of women's rights, republicanism, and the rural poor. Scott chronicles her turbulent marriages, her relentless literary output, and the sheer audacity with which she defied every convention of her age. Beyond the biography of a single life, this portrait illuminates the entire cultural landscape of Romantic-era Europe, situating Sand at the crossroads of art, politics, and gender. Scott's prose is measured and authoritative, drawing on the rich correspondence and memoirs Sand left behind to reveal a woman of profound contradictions — tender and fierce, idealistic and pragmatic. Published by Heron Books in their distinguished collector's series, this volume stands as a compelling introduction to a writer whose influence on literature and feminism remains quietly revolutionary, and whose defiant life raises a question that still resonates: what does society do with a woman who refuses to be contained?