Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
George Sand's real name was Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil. Her nom de plume came from her friend and lover, the novelist Jules Sandeau. Together they wrote the 1831 novel Rose et Blanche, published under the name J. Sand. For the books that followed, written entirely by herself, she kept the name and replaced the J with a G. G for George.
A curious detail: she chose the English spelling, George, rather than the French Georges. It was a way of drawing attention to the name and hinting that all was perhaps not as it seemed. For Sand never hid the fact that her books were written by a woman. Within a year of her first novel, Indiana, in 1832, most of her readers knew that George Sand was female.
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- 2Indiana, the first novel
- 3Frock coat and cigar
- 4Chère Maître: Flaubert, Hugo, Chopin
- 5A free woman in politics
Open-book quiz8 questions whose answers are in the text.
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