"What a brave man she was," said novelist Ivan Turgenev, "and what a
good woman." French writer and feminist Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin,
Baroness Dudevant, aka GEORGE SAND (1804-1876), smoked in public and
dressed like a man, carried on scandalous romantic affairs and was an
intimate of Chopin and Flaubert...and wrote some of the most intriguing
works of 19th-century French literature: novels, plays, autobiographies,
literary criticism, and political treatises. This three-volume 1886
collection of her correspondence sheds light on her personality,
morality, and ideas on religion, all of which molded the philosophies on
women's sexuality and women's freedom that she is famous for today, and
aids a deeper understanding of her work and her place in the history of
feminism. Volume II covers the period of the late 1840s through the mid
1860s, and includes rich details of Sand's involvement in the Republican
movements of the day, the story of her life in starving-artist straits,
her thoughts on life and art, and much more, offering enthralling
insight into the philosophy of a woman whose influence is still felt
today.