The Romances of George Sand
Author: Anna Faktorovich
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Anaphora Literary Press
“The Romances of George Sand” takes the heroine from a childhood in the aristocracy amidst the Napoleonic Wars, to an unhappy early marriage and eventual divorce, to her careers as a country doctor, pharmacist, lawyer, and most successfully as a romance novelist. This is a story about the revolutions in a woman’s heart as she goes through dozens of love affairs. It is also about George’s involvement in violent, political revolutions of her time, including the July and June Revolutions and the 1848 Revolution; in the latter, she served as the unofficial Minister of Propaganda. The story is full of military battles, coup d’etat maneuvers, duels, malevolent plots, infidelity, artistic discussions, monumental legal cases, and reflections on the nature of love, family, romance, rebellion, and femininity. The history behind each of the events depicted is researched with biographical precision, but liberty is taken with some events that have been contested by historians, including the lesbian affair George had with Marie Dorval and the identity of the real father of her second child. Students of literature and history will recognize many of the central characters, as George befriended Napoleon I and III, Alexander Dumas pere and fils, Frederic Chopin, Alfred de Musset, and a long list of other notables.
~About the Author~
Anna Faktorovich is the Director and Founder of the Anaphora Literary Press. She taught college English for three years before focusing entirely on publishing. She has a PhD in English Literature. She published two scholarly books: “Rebellion as Genre in the Novels of Scott, Dickens and Stevenson” (McFarland, 2013) and “The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels” (McFarland, 2014). She completed two other scholarly books: “Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity” and “Wendell Berry’s New Agrarianism and Beyond,” for which she received a Kentucky Historical Society fellowship. She also published two poetry collections “Improvisational Arguments” (Fomite Press, 2011) and “Battle for Athens” (Anaphora, 2012).
