Synopsis
A scrupulously researched and tenderly revealing biography of one of the great pioneering figures of 19th-century French literature. Born in 1804 – at a time when women were deprived of their civil rights (along with minors, criminals, and the insane) – Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin grew up to defy those norms, both in her life and her writing. Adopting the pen-name George Sand, and in a career lasting over forty years as a novelist and playwright, she is best remembered today for the affairs and friendships she enjoyed with men: the composer Chopin; the painter Delacroix; the novelist Balzac.
But this moving biographical portrait, written by Séverine Vidal and illustrated by Kim Consigny, restores her to the centre-stage she always commanded in her lifetime. Not just as the daring, scandalously cross-dressing, bisexual, cigarette-smoking divorcée novelist, but as the brilliant chronicler of her changing time – and therefore of ours.
From: SelfMadeHero
Notes on This Title
This is a biography of George Sand, a bisexual woman known for wearing men’s clothes. Frédéric Chopin appears as a supporting character; he is implied to be queer, although he does not explicitly identify as such.
Awards
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Reviews
“Writer Séverine Vidal and illustrator Kim Consigny tell the extraordinary life story of the French author, who cross-dressed and pricked male pomposity, with great care and humour.” (Source: The Guardian)
Interviews
SelfMadeHero: “Authors’ Spotlight: Q&A with Séverine Vidal and Kim Consigny, Author and Illustrator of George Sand: True Genius, True Woman“