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Article: Lewis, Linda M. Germaine de Stael, George Sand, and the Victorian Woman Artist.(Book Review)
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- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
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- September 22, 2004
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Lewis, Linda M. Germaine de Stael, George Sand, and the Victorian Woman Artist. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2003. Pp. 278. ISBN: 0-8262-1455-x
Linda M. Lewis's recently published study enumerates the influences of Stael's Corinne (1807) and Sand's Consuelo (1842) and La Comtesse de Rudolstadt (1843) on the work of four Victorian writers: Geraldine Jewsbury, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, and Mrs. Humphrey Ward. In particular Lewis focuses on English texts whose main female characters are artists and women of great intellect, the direct inheritors of a great woman tradition established by Corinne and Consuelo.
In this epic study, Lewis surveys ...