French gentlewoman of letters, born at Seine-Port, in the department of Seine-et-Marne, on the 21st of September 1840; gained renown by her romances and translations published in the Revue Politique et Littéraire and the Revue des Deux Mondes; in 1868 gave The Romance of a Mute to the world as her first book; followed it in rapid succession by forty romances, of which A Remorse (1878), and Tony (1884) were crowned by the French Academy; rendered into French some of Bret Harte’s California tales, and Ouida’s Two Little Wooden Shoes; published two volumes of essays on the Literature and Customs of Foreigners and Recent American Novelists. One of her latest novels, Jacqueline, was rendered into English by Mrs. E. Wormeley Latimer in 1893. That year she visited the Columbian Fair in Chicago, and on her return wrote for the Revue des Deux Mondes a study of American women. She is fond of social problems and reforms, and writes cleanly and with sympathy in her novels concerning them. See also “Critical and Biographical Introduction to George Sand.”
