Seven Strings of the Lyre or the Romantic Life of George Sand

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Buy Seven Strings of the Lyre or the Romantic Life of George Sand at   George Kennedy offers the first English translation of this work, along with an introduction that places the play in its philosophical and literary context.

The Seven Strings of the Lyre is Sand's response to Goethe's Faust and a reflection of her views of music as developed in conversations with Chopin and Franz Liszt. Sand, unlike so many of her contemporaries, saw Goethe Pages: Seven Strings of the Lyre Or the Romantic Life of George Sand it was ok avg rating — 1 rating — published — 2 editions Want to Read saving /5(3).

The Seven Strings of the Lyre; The Romantic Life of George Sand, Sand, George Pseud. (Dupin, Amantine Aurore Lucile, Baronness Dudevant Naginsk) Schermerhorn, Elizabeth W.

Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA (). The seven strings of the lyre: the romantic life of George Sand, /Author: Elizabeth Wheeler. Schermerhorn. A Woman’s Version of the Faust Legend: ‘The Seven Strings of the Lyre’ by George Sand, tr.

George A. Kennedy (Chapel Hill and London: University of Author: Ceri Crossley. George Sand (born Armandine Aurore Lucille Dupin, July 1, — June 9, ) was a controversial yet popular writer and novelist of her time. Considered a Romantic idealist writer, she was read among the artists and intelligentsia.

Called Aurore as a child, she was left in the care of her grandmother and mother when her father died. Seeking. Personal life. George Sand – known to her friends and family as "Aurore" – was born in Paris and was raised for much of her childhood by her grandmother, Marie-Aurore de Saxe, Madame Dupin de Francueil, at her grandmother's estate, Nohant, in the French province of Berry (see House of George Sand).

Sand later used the estate setting in many of her en: Maurice Sand, Solange Sand. Get this from a library. The seven strings of the lyre; the romantic life of George Sand.

[Elizabeth Wheeler Schermerhorn]. Sold as is. well used and nothing falling out, but binding is Rating: % positive. Get this from a library. The seven strings of the lyre: the romantic life of George Sand, [Elizabeth Wheeler Schermerhorn].

One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than both Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England in the s and s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era. Personal life. George Sand – known to her friends and family as "Aurore" – was born in Paris and was.

quite strange autobiography of the 19th century french female novelist Aurore Dupin, penname George Sand. the majority of the book details her life before the age of 8. the last forty years of her life, including all the years of her career, fame, and romance with famous writers and artists of her day, take up 2 short chapters/5.

Elizabeth W. Schermerhorn, The Seven Strings of the Lyre: The Romantic Life of George Sand, (), is authoritative and carefully compiled.

Felizia Seyd, Romantic Rebel: The Life and Times of George Sand (), is a straightforward account. The Double Life of George Sand: Woman and Writer.

New York: Basic Books, Winegarten, a literary scholar and critic, provides a work which focuses on Sand’s problem of being an exceptional woman doomed in a male dominated society. The author concentrates on Sand’s role as both mother and daughter.

George Sand's last works show a tendency to moralize; in these novels the characters become incarnated theories rather than human beings. FURTHER READINGS George Sand's appeal to biographers has inspired a number of good works.

Elizabeth W. Schermerhorn, The Seven Strings of the Lyre: The Romantic Life of George Sand, "George Sand.". ( – ) Biographical Sketch. Amandine (also “Amantine”) Lucile Aurore Dupin, Baroness (French: baronne) Dudevant (Paris, France, July 1, – Nohant, France, June 8, ), best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist, political activist and memoirist.

Inat the age of eighteen, Sand married Baron Casimir Dudevant ( – ). Sand’s philosophic play The Seven Strings of the L yre [Les Sept Cor des de la lyre] ().

In reference to Faust’s divided personality, this work in poetic prose (completed in. The Seven Strings of the Lyre: The Romantic Life of George Sand, Heinemann. pp. Naomi Schor. George Sand and Idealism. Columbia University Press.

The Double Life of George Sand, Woman and Writer: A. George Sand's The Seven Strings of the Lyre is a philosophical play written in poetic prose and never intended for perfomance on stage. Completed in during the early stages of Sand's romantic involvement with Frederic Chopin, it is one Book Edition: Second Edition, Revised And Enlarged.George Sand's The Seven Strings of the Lyre is a philosophical play written in poetic prose and never intended for perfomance on stage.

Completed in during the early stages of Sand's romantic involvement with Frederic Chopin, it is one of the very few treatments of the Faust legend by a woman.