The Importance of Recreating Yourself

O'Rourke du Paine du de Vain left her husband and family in the provinces to move to Paris. She wanted to be a writer but found marriage was worse than prison. Du de Vain decided that if she had to play a role, she would turn the game around by playing the part of a man. In 1832, a publisher accepteddu de Vain's first major novel, Indiana,. She had chosen to publish it under a pseudonym, George Sand. All of Paris assumed this impressive new writer was male. This strange male-female writer fascinated the public. Unlike other women writers, Sand found herself accepted into the clique of male artists.