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Naked in the Marketplace: The Lives of George Sand
Streaming Audio Length: 58:29 minutes
George Sand was perhaps the first Frenchwoman celebrated throughout Europe who was neither a saint nor a king's mistress, and she was also the first female bestselling novelist. She is as famous for her scandalous life as for her books - a life that included leaving a husband and child, setting up in Paris with an eighteen-year-old lover, liaisons and friendships with four artistic geniuses, and political action in two revolutions. Eisler's book tells the story of Sand's whirlwind life and affairs and traces her motivations to a lifelong consciousness of class and privilege based in a one-sided relationship to her working-class mother. Booklist says, "Eisler's portrait of this woman of many firsts brings Sand and her boldly improvised life forward more vividly than ever before."
Library trustee Benita Eisler was educated at Smith and Harvard and has worked as an art editor, reporter, on-camera correspondent, and television producer, as well as teaching nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature at Princeton University. She is the author of the biographies
O'Keeffe and Stieglitz: An American Romance,
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame and more recently
Chopin's Funeral.
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