Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However the rift between the Dudevants continued to grow. Sand drew up a marriage contract and began to live half the year on her own in Paris. There her platonic lovers became physical ones, her second child, born during this time, was probably not Dudevant's. After several years of growing antagonism, the Dudevants were legally and scandalously separated...
...this time Sand had established a life of her own. She paraded around Paris unescorted, publicly lived with her lovers and published the first of her more than 70 books. Women writers were not well received by the reading public. Aurore Dupin became George Sand and remained so until her death...
...Sand yearned to be a "writer among writers" not a woman among writers or a writer among women. Her first novels, such as Indiana, not surprisingly, attacked marriage, declaring it unfulfilling, demeaning and emotionally deadening for both women and men. Her non-fiction, which Barry quotes from at length, made feminist demands: rigorous intellectual education for women, reform of the divorce laws, repeal of statutes giving husbands full authority over their wives' lives and property. Barry points out that many of the changes Sand demanded were not effected until 1970. Even now, he adds, political and legal equality have...
...SAND WAS a true Romantic. She wrote she was only happy "when I love" and not always then. She declared, "Love is all." But for Sand, love is only love when both partners are equals, "when two hearts, two minds, two bodies meet in understanding and embrace." She drifted from lover to lover, agonizing over the breaks and partings. She sought the perfect relationship, and if she couldn't have it, she would readily leave one man to join another who was, in her words, "closer to perfection...
Barry dispels several myths about Sand and these relationships. While earlier biographers and critics claimed that she was a frigid nymphomaniac, always seeking and never finding physical satisfaction, except perhaps in her long-term, probably lesbian affair with Marie Dorval, Barry uses Sand's letters and journal entries to show this was far from the case. Nor, Barry proves, was Sand neurotically seeking to be the "male" in her heterosexual relationships. Some of her lovers--including consumptive Chopin--were "weak", younger and easily dominated. But Sand was also capable of being pathetically submissive, promising one brutal lover, on the verge...