Event 18 – BECOMING GEORGE: THE INVENTION OF GEORGE SAND
Sunday 30 August, 4:00 pm
Baptist Church, Hereford Street, Presteigne LD8 2AR
Baptist Church, Hereford Street, Presteigne LD8 2AR
By the age of 30, the novelist born Aurore Dupin in 1804 had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English, her daring literary experiments were outselling even Victor Hugo. But the legend of Sand herself scandalised Paris. Not only prodigiously talented but cigar-smoking, cross-dressing and promiscuous, she seemed to break all the rules society set for women.
In Becoming George, award-winning poet and biographer Fiona Sampson rehabilitates Sand as an intellectual and artistic giant, the beating heart of French literature in the 19th century. Too often underestimated in the 150 years since her death, she speaks to us today – about ecology, politics, society, gender – with brilliant prescience: a figure ahead of her time.
Tickets:Tocynnau: £10 · £5 Young People (aged 8–25)
Event ends:Amser gorffen: 5:00 pm