Sand, George
Sand, George (pseudonym of Amandine‐Aurore‐Lucile Dudevant, née Dupin, 1804–76),French romantic novelist and writer. In her pastoral novels like La Mare au diable (The Devil's Pool, 1846), Sand included scenes of storytelling and references to folklore. Sand was raised on tales by Charles Perrault and Mme d'Aulnoy, whose impact on her œuvre resides primarily in her idealized representations of the countryside and nature, but her specific brand of the marvellous clearly was influenced by E. T. A. Hoffmann's fantastic tales. It was not until Sand was herself a grandmother that she put together a collection of tales for her granddaughters Aurore and Gabrielle, entitled Contes d'une grand‐mère (Tales of a Grandmother, 1873).
Her tales have an overriding pedagogical function, in which...
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