THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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Sand, George ___ 1804-1876 ___ French
___ writer
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin was
born in Paris, educated at Nohant, her grandmother's estate, and at a convent
in Paris. In 1821, she inherited Nohant, and a year later married Casimir
Dudevant. In 1831, though, she left Nohant and her husband and went, with
two children, to Paris. The same year she published a first novel, 'Rose
Et Blanche', written in collaboration with Jules Sandeau, from whom she
took her early pen-name (Jules Sand), and articles in 'Le Figaro'. Her second
novel 'Indiana', in 1832, written under the pen-name George Sand, brought
her near instant fame. It told of a naive woman abused by an older husband
and deceived by a selfish seducer. Thereafter, she became a celebrity of
sorts, famously dressing in men's clothes much of the time, and having many
love affairs, the most famous of which was with the composer Chopin. Her
novels, and there were many, were largely romantic, with the heroes often
workmen or peasants, living in the countryside of her childhood near Nohant.
They were also often autobiographical, coloured by whoever she was involved
with at the time, and overtly romantic with love usually conquering obstacles
of class and convention. Sand was not a true diarist but she did leave behind
some diary writing in the form of letters addressed to lovers and occasional
musings on her intimate relations and on her own shortcomings, and these
were collected together and published in 1929.
One
biography link
DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1834-1868 ___ literary self love/sex
WEB TEXT LINKS
some
extracts
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
Bibliothèque
Historique de la Ville de Paris
___ possibly
SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
The Intimate Journal of George
Sand
May 2005
THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS:
1) The first line of basic information
may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different
names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or
uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown,
or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British'
a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was
compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts
were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if
they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates
and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with
caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are
only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies.
4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges,
and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising.
I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some
variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited
myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their
original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the
titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries. |