What is it that you think about, Sleeping Beauty, as you ride along the country lanes on that skinny mare of yours? And not so much of a beauty either, come to think of it.
French novelist and memoirist (1804–1876)
A woman who wore men's clothes, wrote under a man's name, and outsold Hugo and Balzac in 1840s Britain — then filled 70 novels and 50 more volumes with arguments against marriage and calls for women's rights that scandalized the whole of conservative France.
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil was born 1 July 1804 and grew up admiring her great-grandmother Louise Dupin, an earlier advocate for women. She took the pen name George Sand and by the 1830s had become one of the most recognized writers of the European Romantic era, more renowned in Britain than Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac. Across 70 novels plus over 50 volumes of tales, plays, political texts, and memoirs she criticized marriage, championed passion and women's rights, and fought the prejudices around her. Her turbulent love life and her choice to dress in masculine clothing mad…
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What is it that you think about, Sleeping Beauty, as you ride along the country lanes on that skinny mare of yours? And not so much of a beauty either, come to think of it.
Here I am, worried and anxious; there she is, serenity incarnate. How can she appear before me like a human reproach? Like an ironic comment on my own life.
The author of these novellas has never had a system as to the priority of one sex over the other.
one should always judge youth leniently. Certainly it would be unfair to pass dogmatic judgment upon what is spontaneous and consequently naïve.
Three years ago in Saint-Front, an ugly little town that you won't find on any map, something happened that caused quite a stir.
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