"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 III opens with an 1866 letter to Alexandre Dumas
critiquing his recent work, and ends with one to her doctor, Henri
Favre, mere days before her death in 1876, thanking him for his kind
ministrations. In between, we discover a portrait of a woman rich in
friendship and love. This volume includes numerous letters to Flaubert,
her thoughts on the political turmoil of France at the time, and much
more.