Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism


Avellaneda, Gertrudis Gómez de | Sandra Beyer and Frederick Kluck (essay date 1991)

Sandra Beyer and Frederick Kluck (essay date 1991)

SOURCE: Beyer, Sandra, and Frederick Kluck. “George Sand and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 19, no. 2 (winter 1991): 203-09.

[In the following essay, Beyer and Kluck discuss the influence of George Sand's Indiana on Sab.]

That George Sand's works were of great importance in the English, Russian and American literary worlds is extremely well documented. Paul Blount asserts in his George Sand and the Victorian World, “It is not an exaggeration to say that a cult of George Sand existed in Victorian England and that among its participants were some of the most important figures in the literary world.”1 Among those, he cites Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, Jane Carlyle, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Charlotte Brontë. Patrick Waddington, in his Turgenev and George Sand: An Improbable Entente, says, “The moral and...

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