biography
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Sand, George
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pseudonym of (Amandine) Aurore (Lucile) Dudevant, née Dupin
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pronunciation:
[sã, zhaw(r)zh]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1804–76)
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| biography:
| Novelist, journalist, and feminist, born in Paris, France. She left her husband (Baron Dudevant) and family in 1831, and returned to Paris to take up literature, becoming the companion of those poets, artists, philosophers, and politicians whose work she found inspiring. After 1848 she settled at Nohant, where she spent the rest of her life in literary and political activity, varied by travel. Her first novel, Indiana (1832), was followed by over 100 books, the most successful being those describing rustic life, such as François le champi (1848), which sparked Marcel's discovery of his vocation as a writer in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. She also wrote plays, autobiographical works (notably about her open relationships with de Musset and Chopin), and letters. Her protest against social conventions and class restrictions can be found in novels such as Consuelo (1842–3). |
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