Famous Women

<p>THE authentic materials available for an account of the life of George Sand although lately increased by the publication of a large part of her correspondence are still incomplete.</p><p> </p><p>Her memoirs by her own hand dealing fully with her early life alone remain unsupplemented by any entire and detailed biography for which indeed the time seems hardly yet come.</p><p> </p><p>Hence one among many obvious difficulties in the way of this attempt to prepare for English readers a brief sketch that shall at least indicate all the more salient features of a life of singularly varied aspect.</p><p> </p><p>Much though of interest in itself must here be omitted as beyond the scope of the present study. There are points again into which as touching persons still living or quite recently deceased it would be premature to enter.</p><p> </p><p>But none seem of such importance as to forbid the endeavor by a careful review of those facts in the life of George Sand which most justly represent her character as a whole and were the determining influences on her career and on her work to arrive at truth and completeness of general outline the utmost it is possible to hope to accomplish in this little volume.</p><p> </p>