George Sand
Ms. Elizabeth Harlan
Edition: First
Edition. Language: English. Pages: 400
Novel
George Sand was the most famous—and most
scandalous—woman in nineteenth-century France . As a writer, she was
enormously prolific—she wrote more than ninety novels, thirty-five plays, and
thousands of pages of autobiography. She inspired writers as diverse as
Flaubert and Proust but is often remembered for her love affairs with such
figures as Musset and Chopin. Her affair with Chopin is the most notorious:
their nine-year relationship ended in 1847 when Sand began to suspect that the
composer had fallen in love with her daughter, Solange. Drawing on archival
sources—much of it neglected by Sand’s previous biographers—Elizabeth Harlan
examines the intertwined issues of maternity and identity that haunt Sand's
writing and defined her life. Why was Sand's relationship with her daughter so fraught? Why was a woman so famous for her personal and literary audacity ultimately so conflicted about women's liberation? In an effort to solve the riddle of Sand’s identity, Harlan examines a latticework of lives that include Solange, Sand's mother and grandmother, and Sand’s own protagonists, whose stories amplify her own.
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