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...women was the Countess Marie d'Agoult. She had caused quite a scandal by leaving her husband and running away with Liszt after they had wept together over one of those novels by George Sand in which the heroines always prefer passion to domesticity. The Piffoel family was Authoress Sand and her children. Part of the confusion of genders came about because Liszt's brilliant pupil, Hermann Cohen, another of the party, insisted on wearing girl's clothes. Madame Sand insisted on wearing men's clothes. They were Romantics, and these were the signs of their...
Most people who know that George Sand (real name: Amantine Lucile Aurore Dudevant, nee Dupin) was a French novelist have seldom read one of her novels all the way through. This week appeared a full-length life of Authoress Sand...
Alone again, Authoress Sand considered Pianist Liszt as a successor to Musset and the doctor. Replied the cautious virtuoso: Only God deserves to be loved. In 1836 George Sand wrote in her diary: "Farewell, Eros! You idol of my youth! . . . The present and future are free for the service of humanity. . . ." She began to write proletarian novels in which heroines no longer deserted their husbands for love but for the revolution and the socialist teachings of Saint-Simon and Louis Blanc...
Died, Frances, Countess of Warwick, 76, Socialist, philanthropist. British authoress who prophesied that George V would be England's last king and Edward, now Duke of Windsor, an admirable first president (TIME, March 17, 1930); at Dunmow, Essex...
...authoress of Grace Moore's opus, "One Night of Love," and other pieces including "Dancers in the Dark" and "The Road to Needles," Miss Speare has spoken here before. Her subject today will be "Discovering Aristotle in Hollywood," a talk which is to be based on her experiences in writing at the California film colony...