Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Autobiographical Project 2 Family Relationships 3 Structure 4 Identity and Writing, Conclusion

About the Author

J.A. Hiddleston

Reviews

It is in subtle textual analysis that Hiddleston excels, and her studies of Sand s vocabulary, structure, imagery, symbolism and narrative strategies break new ground... Hiddleston offers us a sensitive and nuanced portrait of a complex writer.--Nigel Harkness "French Studies, LV.1, 2001, 104-5 ""

Janet Hiddleston s well-informed, lucid and succinct study, which takes account of Sand s complex, often contradictory self-identity in terms of gender, will undoubtedly make more accessible a text which is all too often approached selectively.--Belinda Jack"Times Literary Supplement" (07/01/2000)"

The conclusion, in many respects the most compelling section of the book, offers a fascinating analysis of central image polarities of the autobiography, Paris versus Nohant, the Garden of Eden versus a room of one s own .--Keith Wren "Modern Language Review, 96.3, 2001, 832-3 ""