Nouvelles lettres d'un voyageur / par George Sand

by George Sand

George Sand, ecrivain francaise, est le pseudonyme d'Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin (1804-1876), plus tard baronne Dudevant. Elle ecrivit des romans, des nouvelles, des contes, des pieces de theatre, une autobiographie, des critiques litteraires et des textes politiques. Elle est nee a Paris, mais a passe la plus grande partie de son enfance a Nohant dans l'Indre. En 1831 paraut son premier roman Rose et Blanche qu'elle a ecrit en collaboration avec Jules Sandeau, de qui elle s'inspire pour son pseudonyme Sand. Dans ses premiers romans, autobiographies transposees, elle assimile la quete du bonheur personnel a une regeneration sociale. Autres oeuvres Indiana (qu'elle signe pour la premiere fois du pseudonyme de George Sand, 1832), Lelia (1833) et Elle et Lui (1859).

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First published May 1, 2008

About the author

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era. She wrote more than 50 volumes of various works to her credit, including tales, plays and political texts, alongside her 70 novels.
Like her great-grandmother, Louise Dupin, whom she admired, George Sand advocated for women's rights and passion, criticized the institution of marriage, and fought against the prejudices of a conservative society. She was considered scandalous because of her turbulent love life, her adoption of masculine clothing, and her masculine pseudonym.