Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, late Baroness Dudevant (July 1, 1804 – June 8, 1876) was a French novelist and early feminist (prior to a invention of a word) world health organization wrote under the pen name of George Sand.

Innate around Paris to the father of blue-blooded lineage & a "common" mother, Sand was raised for tremendously of her childhood by her grannie at the personal estate, Nohant, inside the French vicinity of Berry, a setting late utilized in several of her novels. Around 1822, she married Baron Casimir Dudevant, and it experienced ii babies, Maurice (b. 1823) and Solange (b. 1828). Around 1835, taking them by having her, she left her hubby.

Her 1st novel, "Rose et Blanche" (1831) was written in collaboration using Jules Sandeau, from whom she allegedly took her pen-title, Sand.

Tail from either her married man S& mass produced less and less the secret of preferring men's material to women's, although she continued to dress as a woman for social occasions. This male "disguise" enabled S& to circulate additional freely just about Paris, and gave her increased access to venues that will keep around been denied to the woman of her social standing. This was an exceptional practice for the 19th century, where social codes—especially in the upper class—were of the greatest importance. Following Sand misused much of the privileges bound to existence the Baroness. Ironically, it was too the a share of the mores of this period that women of higher classes may survive physically separated from either their hubby forswearing losing face, in case it didn't indicate any blatant irregularity to the outer globe. She was linked romantically by owning Alfred de Musset (summer 1833 - March 1834), Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) whom she had met inside Paris within 1831.

Within Majorca one can however visit a (so abandoned) Carthusian monastery of Valldemossa, where she spent a wintertime of 1838–39 using Frédéric Chopin & her toddlers. [http://www.valldemossa.com/museoin.htm ] This hike to Mallorca was described by her within Un hiver à Majorque ("A winter in Mallorca"), published within 1855.

She left Chopin shortly prior to he died from either tuberculosis.

Her successful novels include "Indiana" (1832), "Lélia" (1833), "Mauprat" (1837), "Le Compagnon du Tour de France" (1840), "Consuelo" (1842–1843), and "Le Meunier d'Angibault" (1845).

Drawing from either her childhood lives of a countryside, she wrote the rural novels "La Mare du Diable" (1846), "François le Champi" (1847–1848), "La Petite Fadette" (1849), and "Les Beaux Messieurs Bois-Dore".

Farther theatre pieces & autobiographical pieces include "Histoire de ma vie" (1855), "Elle et Lui" (1859) (about her affair by owning Musset), "Journal Intime" (posth. 1926), and "Correspondance".

Additionally, S& authored literary criticism and political texts.

George Sand died at Nohant, near Chateauroux, in the Indre département of France on June 8, 1876 at the age of 72 and was buried in the grounds of her home at Nohant. Around 2004, controversial plans were suggested to move her remains to the Pantheon around Paris.