Presents the life of best-selling author George Sand, tracing her rise in society, involvment in the revolutions of 1831 and 1848, and literary career.
Acclaimed literary biographer Benita Eisler sheds new light on the many roles, triumphs, and losses that together constituted Sand's overwhelming presence. The author of nearly ninety novels, twenty-
In this masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and prefigured the modern age of celebrity, noted biographer Benita Eisler offers a fuller and more complex vision than we have yet been affor
Highlights the life and work of the American painter, author and traveler who specialized in images of Native Americans and who advocated for them before ultimately exploiting them in a live show that
Frederic Chopin’s reputation as one of the Great Romantics endures, but as Benita Eisler reveals in her elegant and elegiac biography, the man was more complicated than his iconic image. A classicist,
The Mill Women of Lowell, Massachusetts—the first female industrial wage earners in the United States—were a new social and economic phenomenon in American society. In the 1830s and 1840s, drawn by th
