Bertha Thomas’s biography of George Sand, published as part of the Famous Women series in the 1880s, presents the life of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin — the French novelist who published under the name George Sand and became the most celebrated female writer of nineteenth-century Europe. Sand’s life was as remarkable as her fiction: she wore men’s clothes, had celebrated love affairs with Musset and Chopin, and wrote nearly eighty novels championing women’s freedom and social equality.
This sympathetic biographical account remains a useful introduction to Sand’s life and significance. Download it as a free EPUB.