George Sand / by Harlan, Elizabeth

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Story of my life : the autobiography of George Sand : a group translation / by Sand, George, 1804-1876

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Superwomen / by Terhune, Albert Payson, 1872-1942

Table of Contents: “…Lola Montez -- Ninon de L'Enclos -- Pegg Woffington -- Helen of Troy -- Madame Jumel -- Adrienne Lecouvreur -- Cleopatra -- George Sand -- Madame du Barry -- Lady Blessington -- Madame Recamier -- Lady Hamilton.…”
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Women and the French tradition / by Ravenel, Florence Leftwich

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- The eternal feminine -- A woman critic of women [Arvède Barine] -- A law unto herself [George Sand] -- The great salonière [Mme. de Staël] -- The great tradition [Madame de Sévigné] -- The riddle of the sphinx [Mme. de Lafayette] -- Great women's daughters -- Women of France.…”
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Flaubert / by Winock, Michel

Table of Contents: “…to write" -- To love -- A change of direction -- Death on the horizon -- Louise -- 1848 -- A longing for the Orient -- From the Pyramids to Constantinople -- Louise (last and final) -- Emma -- Fame -- Life in Paris -- Salammbô -- Caroline's marriage -- The hermit in white gloves -- Monseigneur -- Frédéric is not me -- Frédéric is us -- Cold shower -- George Sand and the old troubadour -- War! -- The Paris Commune -- "The being I loved most" -- The ups and downs of melancholy -- Financial ruin and bereavement -- "Blue sky ahead!" …”

Flaubert / by Winock, Michel

Table of Contents: “…to write" -- To love -- A change of direction -- Death on the horizon -- Louise -- 1848 -- A longing for the Orient -- From the Pyramids to Constantinople -- Louise (last and final) -- Emma -- Fame -- Life in Paris -- Salammbo -- Caroline's marriage -- The hermit in white gloves -- Monseigneur -- Frederic is not me -- Frederic is us -- Cold shower -- George Sand and the old troubadour -- War! -- The Paris Commune -- "The being I loved most" -- The ups and downs of melancholy -- Financial ruin and bereavement -- "Blue sky ahead!" …”
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Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus in the phantasmagoria / by Simms, Norman Toby

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Extraordinary women in support of music / by Mender, Mona, 1926-2012

Table of Contents: “…A brief history -- Ladies of the great salons: Aspasia ; Isabella d'Este ; Lucrezia Borgia ; Diane de Poitiers ; Marquise de Rambouillet ; Queen Christina of Sweden ; Ninon de Lenclos ; Claudine de Tencin ; Marie du Deffand ; Misia Sert ; Coco Chanel ; Princesse de Polignac ; Comtesse de Polignac ; Gertrude Stein -- Elegant patronesses of the old world: Eleanor of Acquitaine ; Catherine de Medicis ; Queen Elizabeth I ; Empress Maria Theresa ; Madame de Pompadour ; Nadezhda von Meck ; Queen Elisabeth of Belgium ; Bathsabee de Rothschild -- Wives and lovers: George Sand ; Clara Schumann ; Cosima Wagner ; Sara Bull ; Alma Mahler ; Olga Koussevitzky ; Aniela Rubinstein ; Galina Rostropovich ; Felicia Bernstein ; Martita Casals -- Inspired teachers: Isabella Vengerova ; Rosina Lhevinne ; Estelle Liebling ; Olga Samaroff ; Nadia Boulanger ; Dorothy DeLay ; Helen Coates ; Phillis Curtin.…”

Marie d'Agoult : the rebel countess / by Bolster, Richard

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Adam Mickiewicz : the life of a romantic / by Koropeckyj, Roman Robert

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Notable women in history : the lives of women who in all ages, all lands and in all womanly occupations have won fame and put their imprint on the world's history / by Abbot, Willis J. 1863-1934

Table of Contents: “…Siddons : "the tragic muse" -- "Peg" Woffington: "Queen of all hearts" -- Sarah Bernhardt : a stage idol for fifty years -- Adelina Patti : the queen of song -- Louisa May Alcott : the "Jo" of "Little women" -- Jane Austen : a brilliant chronicler of the commonplace -- Rosa Bonheur : the friend and painter of animals -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : a poet and a poet's bride -- Mary Ann Evans : "George Eliot," England's most famous woman novelist -- Margaret Fuller : an inspired conversationalist -- Charlotte Bronte : the creator of "Jane Eyre" -- Harriet Beecher Stowe : the little woman who caused a big war -- Madame Dudevant : the "George Sand" of French fiction -- Madame de la Ramee : the "Ouida" beloved of school girls -- Helen Hunt Jackson : the Indian's devoted friend -- Mary Lamb : the gentle humorist's adoring sister -- Frances Trollope : whose book on America enraged a nation -- Martha Washington : the original "First Lady of the land" -- Dolly Madison : the White House heroine of 1812 -- Joan of Arc : seer, soldier, leader of men, martyr.…”
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Magill's survey of world literature /

Table of Contents: “…Rowling -- Complete List of Contents -- Arundhati Roy -- Gabrielle Roy -- Juan Rulfo -- Salman Rushdie -- John Ruskin -- Nelly Sachs -- Françoise Sagan -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- Saki -- George Sand -- Sappho -- José Saramago -- Nathalie Sarraute -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Dorothy L. …”
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