Volume 26, Number 15 · October 11, 1979
She Had It All
By Diane Johnson
My Life
by George Sand, translated and adapted by Dan Hofstadter
Harper and Row, 246 pp., $12.95
George Sand in Her Own Words
translated and edited by Joseph Barry, introduction by Ellen Moers
Anchor Books, 475 pp., $4.95 (paper)
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
translated by A.L. McKenzie
Academy Chicago, 382 pp., $5.95 (paper)
The Double Life of George Sand, Woman and Writer
by Renee Winegarten
Basic Books, 339 pp., $15.00
A year ago in these pages (August 17, 1978), V.S. Pritchett, reviewing new editions of four of George Sand's novels, observed that the revival of interest in her work is owing at least in part to 'opportunism of the women's liberation kind.' This 'disconcerting sybil,' in his wonderful phrase, is, no question about it, a rich topic for hungry feminist scholars and alert publishers. Sand herself remarked of her complete works, 'They are endless,' and of her rather good novel Consuelo (recently published by Da Capo Press) and its sequel she could say, only half joking, 'Are they mine? I don't recall a single word of them.'
Review, 3665 words
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