Belinda Elizabeth Jack
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"Born Aurore Dupin in 1804, Sand became France's best-selling writer, rivaled in her day only by Victor Hugo - yet she was known as much for her excessive life as for her plays, stories, and enduring novels like Indiana, Lelia, and Mauprat." "The daughter of a prostitute and an aristocrat, great-granddaughter of the King of Poland, Sand grew up acutely aware of social injustice and prejudice. Convent-educated, she became a mischievous, flamboyant...