Benita Eisler is the author of biographies of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Lord Byron and Frederic Chopin. She is at work on a study of George Sand. The year just ended marked the 200th ...

“WHETHER or not the number of George Sand’s works — always fresh, always attractive, but poured out too lavishly and rapidly—is likely to prove a hindrance to her fame, I do not care to consider.

Diane Kurys’ Children of the Century , from a screenplay by François-Olivier Rousseau, Murray Head and Ms. Kurys, lends itself Diane Kurys’ Children of the Century , from a screenplay by ...

LÉLIA: THE LIFE OF GEORGE SAND (482 pp.)—André Maurois—Harper ($5). If walls could speak, the manor house of Nohant in the French province of Berry would be a Niagara of sound. Chopin and Liszt set ...

Evelyne Bloch-Dano, trans. from the French by Allison Charette. Arcade, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61145-716-2 A writer whose work was often compared to that of Flaubert, Stendahl, and Balzac, George ...

She “entered literature on tiptoe,” age 27. A decade later, she was the most famous writer in Europe. Words poured from her: stories, plays, political pieces, memoirs and hundreds, thousands of ...

George Sand was one of the most scandalous writers of the 19th century, as well as being one of the most prolific, and the most popular. Scandal came less from her many love affairs, her addiction to ...

When I was 16, I enjoyed a summer by myself in Paris. I lived with an Italian composer, a German teenager and a French Marxist in an apartment by the Louvre, and spent my mornings at a language school ...

THE most important as well as perhaps the tritest thing to say about the distinguished writer whose death has just recalled every one’s attention to her is that she was undoubtedly a woman of great ...