num_pages: 339
description: From the The woman who is the subject of this book was born, only fifteen years after the outbreak of the French Revolution, into a world or turbulent self-inquiry. Throughout her long life, in diaries and memoirs, in letters, in novels, plays, and essays, she struggled to understand herself as a woman and as a human being. It was not easy, and she did not always succeed. But she tried, and she was perhaps the first woman to make the attempt with such enduring consistency and on such a scale. As an eminent contemporary of hers observed, in an age when the “question” or the “cause” of woman was coming to the fore, she told what none had told hitherto about woman and the inner life of her sex.
language: English
title: The Double Life of George Sand: Woman and Writer  A Critical Biography
titlecomplete: The Double Life of George Sand: Woman and Writer  A Critical Biography
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Basic Books