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A long-overdue reappraisal of the groundbreaking nineteenth-century writer who reshaped the literary and social norms of her age. By the age of thirty, the young woman who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804 in a Paris garret had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English, her novels...

Elle n’avait pas le goût du scandale mais celui de la liberté, chevillé au corps et à sa plume. George Sand a osé porter des costumes et un nom d’homme, mener la vie sentimentale, littéraire et politique de son choix. Un affront aux préjugés du XIXe siècle et un personnage incontournable pour évoquer l’émancipation des femmes.