People best know Sand for bold statements about the rights in 19th-century society, her exploration of contemporary social and philosophical issues, and her depiction of the lives and language of provincials. Sand stated the primary happiness in life in love and so focused on relationships in most of her novels as she tackled the complexities of politics, society, and gender. Known for its blend of romance and realism, her effortless spontaneity proliferated without sacrificing style and form. People celebrated this controversial life, which oftentimes overshadowed her creative production.

People recognize this best known, most popular memoirist and journalist, more renowned in Europe in her lifetime than Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, People recognize Sand of the most notable writers of the Romantic era of Europe. The novels Lélia (1833) and Consuelo (1842) among works, plays, and essays of French writer George Sand, pen name of Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, baroness Dudevant, concern the freedom and independence of women.

Written some fifty years after the French Revolution, the book taps into many of the political and religious currents that contributed to that social upheaval-and aims to channel their potential for future change.Fed by Sand's rich imagination and bold aspirations for social reform, 'The Countess von Rudolstadt' is a sinuous novel of initiation, continuing the coming of age tale of the titular heroine of Sand's earlier 'Consuelo' and drawing on such diverse models as Ann Radcliffe's Gothic tales and Goethe's 'Wilhelm Meister.' In a novel by equal measures philosophical and lurid, nothing is what it seems. As the old order breaks down, she undergoes a series of grueling initiations into radically redefined notions of marriage and social organization. Her peregrinations throughout Europe (especially Vienna, Berlin, and the Bohemian forest), become a quest undertaken on a number of levels: as a singer, as a woman, and as an unwilling subject of alienation and oppression.Sand's heroine moves through a mid-eighteenth-century Europe where absolute rulers mingle with Enlightenment philosophers and gender-bending members of secret societies plot moral and political revolution. Consuelo, or the Countess von Rudolstadt, born the penniless daughter of a Spanish gypsy, is transformed into an opera star by the great maestro Porpora. The first translation of 'The Countess von Rudolstadt' in more than a century brings to contemporary readers one of George Sand's most ambitious and engaging novels, hailed by many scholars of French literature as her masterpiece.

Consuelo by george sand