Fiona Sampson

Cigar smoking, gender-nonconforming, bisexual, polyamorous—and the intellectual equal of any man—George Sand was the beating heart of the Paris literary scene. Award-winning Fiona Sampson MBE reassesses this uniquely modern figure. Born Aurore Dupin in 1804, by the time she was thirty, she was internationally renowned as George Sand, her novels out-selling Victor Hugo in the English language. Soon, the legend...