Show I I I I r Women wen l t of 0 f History U By IW nev Th ml B 13 Gregory Gre or For more than half hai a century tho the literary W critics have h O beon he l trying to answer anve r t tho tilo o question Vho Who was waa the H Gergo George Sand or Mme Mm do de cl fluid the lie matter is still unset unsettled tied ted Georgo Georg Sand to employ the lie name by bt which Iho th brilliant woman will wi over eor be bc known l to t fame amo was ivas tho the daughter of Dupin and Sophie the daughter of a Paris P rs bird fancier Little Aurora as she sho was to bo b christened was ushered Into the tho world while her father and mother were at al attending attending tending a dance hence her fathers remark when some one ono rushed In and told him that his wife had ha borne horne him hima a n daughter Ah jib she ahe will vilI wi be lie for fortunate fortunate or since she was vas born bor among the roses and to the tto sound s und or of music When a little te girl of four Aurora went to live lve with her hel grandmother In lii her country home near Nahant where chero she until she was 14 1 years old Her education during the tho ten lel years near Nahant Nah nt amounted to Lo noth nothing nothIng ing lag so far CrI as I technical training In boots books was concerned She had ha a tu tutor tutor U tor but the tutor titor was lazy and the tho pupil pupi was Indifferent and the progress ross ress that was WU mad amounted to lo zero lint But in the beauties b of o nature and tho revelations of the peasant life ro bout about her the girl gir found the lie keenest keenest delight and with her romping through tho the country and her association with tho the people she sho found tho the mental tal em employment which was wag to prove to be befar befar befar far more valuable to her than tan any edif edu cation caton at nt the hands ot of a tutor tU or could possibly have ben been When 11 ii 1 Aurora already though thou h so young youn much mich given to meditation m and 1001 roer entered a convent ent which six years later Inter she ho left lef to Lo marry a n French Fench officer r named II It 1 appears that was a combination of clown and amI hobo obo coarse cOr and anti uncongenial and disagreeable and after ter a decade of life me they the separated The Tho wife taking her Infant daughter with her hOI went wont to lo Paris with wih no ro pro provision pro provision vision Islon but an allowance of GO 60 pounds a year oar With her hou brilliant Intellect It was WM natural l that t al Mme should abold turn tur to literature for a support and andIn andIn andin In her bor garret whore often oron she ho was WI unable to afford the thc luxury 11 ry of a n n fire fre I sho put her pen to paper with tho the energy that was born bor of o despera desperation despera tion ton Her first work was for the tho news flows newspapers papers and resulted in nothing either along tho way wn of or fame or fortune Then she hc wrote Toto n ji novel which fell fel f flat fiat fat Then novel noyel under sunder Iho tho now Immortal ul pseudonym of oC George Sand and her fortune was made mad George Sand George Sand who Is George Georgo Sand Sad 1 was wa wa the interrogatory interrogator that made Paris P rB fairly fair bubble with ex cx excitement tomcat ci Other novels noels followed Indiana Indiana and thick rind aud fast fut after the novels novel camo canso the Pastorals the stories of ot o village life which have hae served to to t place their author among the great lit literary I literary emo artists tt ts of all al time tm George Sand ad died In 1876 In her hor your with about loil her hl ai i h as t os ln midst of or she ill was wan wll born b r l |