Letters of George Sand"What a brave man she was," said novelist Ivan Turgenev, "and what a good woman." French writer and feminist Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, aka GEORGE SAND (1804-1876), smoked in public and dressed like a man, carried on scandalous romantic affairs and was an intimate of Chopin and Flaubert...and wrote some of the most intriguing works of 19th-century French literature: novels, plays, autobiographies, literary criticism, and political treatises. This three-volume 1886 collection of her correspondence sheds light on her personality, morality, and ideas on religion, all of which molded the philosophies on women's sexuality and women's freedom that she is famous for today, and aids a deeper understanding of her work and her place in the history of feminism. Volume III opens with an 1866 letter to Alexandre Dumas critiquing his recent work, and ends with one to her doctor, Henri Favre, mere days before her death in 1876, thanking him for his kind ministrations. In between, we discover a portrait of a woman rich in friendship and love. This volume includes numerous letters to Flaubert, her thoughts on the political turmoil of France at the time, and much more. |
Contents
Section 16 | 159 |
Section 17 | 180 |
Section 18 | 190 |
Section 19 | 195 |
Section 20 | 198 |
Section 21 | 201 |
Section 22 | 203 |
Section 23 | 221 |
Section 9 | 63 |
Section 10 | 116 |
Section 11 | 124 |
Section 12 | 135 |
Section 13 | 137 |
Section 14 | 140 |
Section 15 | 148 |
Section 24 | 222 |
Section 25 | 229 |
Section 26 | 231 |
Section 27 | 240 |
Section 28 | 345 |
Section 29 | 346 |
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