Description: A long-overdue reappraisal of the groundbreaking nineteenth-century writer who reshaped the literary and social norms of her age.
Brief description: Fiona Sampson MBE FRSL is a leading British poet, a writer, and Romanticist. Professor Emerita of Poetry, University of Roehampton and Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College University of Oxford, she has received numerous national and international literary awards and been published in thirty-eight languages. Becoming George completes a trilogy of acclaimed biographies. In Search of Mary Shelley, a London Times Book of the Year, was followed by Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a Washington Post Book of the Year, New York Times bestseller, and finalist for the Plutarch Award and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography.
Review Quotes: Fiona Sampson beautifully describes the 'self-invention' of George Sand, the Romantic period's most famous woman writer, and in the process paints a vivid portrait of a world in the throes of political and artistic revolution.--Maurice Samuels, author of Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair