THE long-promised letters of George Sand to Alfred de Musset appeared recently in the Revue de Paris, and were followed by a second series addressed to Sainte-Beuve. 1 Even before the publication of ...

One of the very few successful female writers of the 19th century, George Sand is best known as a novelist and playwright, a true equal of her male contemporaries Balzac, Flaubert, and Victor Hugo.

“WHETHER or not the number of George Sand’s works — always fresh, always attractive, but poured out too lavishly and rapidly—is likely to prove a hindrance to her fame, I do not care to consider.