A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. VOL. VIII.—NOVEMBER, 1861.—NO. XLIX. “ Deduci superbo Non humilis mulier triumpho.” THESE words are applied by Horace to the great Cleopatra, whose heroic ...

In 1821, aged 17, Aurore Dupin tried to kill herself by riding her horse into a deep river. Twenty-eight years later, Landry, a character in La Petite Fadette, a novel written by Dupin under her pen ...

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 ...

This week Books & Writing celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Aurore Dupin, better known to us as the French author George Sand. In a colourful life that included a relationship with ...

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 ...