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Quote of the day by George Sand, 'There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved' offers timeless wisdom, life advice on inner peace, optimism, acceptance, gratitude, validation, shows psychology of positive mindset

Quote of the day by George Sand offers a simple but profound reflection on what makes life emotionally meaningful. Love is not a guarantee of a perfect existence, and being loved does not eliminate pain, disappointment, or uncertainty. Yet genuine affection can give people something that achievements alone cannot always…

The Economic Times

Becoming George by Fiona Sampson review – the remarkable story of a cross-dressing 19th century novelist

A reappraisal of one of literature’s most sensational personalities, the author of more than 70 books

The Guardian - UK

Custody: The Secret History of Mothers by Lara Feigel – why women still have to fight for their children

Feigel uses her own experience as a starting point to examine the past, present and future of separation

The Guardian - UK

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I was warned my children would be ripped in half when we divorced. But I had no idea just how brutal custody cases can be

My experience of court was eye-opening. And when I sat in on other cases, I realised how often mothers are vilified

The Guardian - UK

Lisztomania: why did women go gaga for 19th century pianist Franz Liszt?

In 1844, Berlin was struck by a cultural fever critics labelled Lisztomania.

The Conversation

The Original by Nell Stevens review – queering the Victorians

This flamboyant tale of fakers and forgery, straddling the turn of the 20th century, is a smart and witty investigation into love and authenticity

The Guardian - UK

'Romantic Life: Chopin, Scheffer, Delacroix, Sand' – a Parisian circle reimagined in Warsaw

Ary Scheffer’s Paris studio was a vibrant meeting place for painters, writers, and musicians - Chopin among them. A true centre of Romantic life in 19th-century Paris, its spirit has been revived at the Frederic Chopin Museum in Warsaw in a new exhibition.

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George Sand: True Genius, True Woman review – a pleasure and an education

Writer Séverine Vidal and illustrator Kim Consigny tell the extraordinary life story of the French author, who cross-dressed and pricked male pomposity, with great care and humour

The Guardian - UK

Where you can (and can’t) watch 8 of Julian Sands’ most notable movie roles

Julian Sands, whose remains were found Saturday and identified this week five months after he went missing while hiking near Mount Baldy in Southern California, emerged in the 1980s with a cohort of other actors who rode a British cinematic rebirth to Hollywood stardom. Those peers and sometime co-stars included…

Los Angeles Times

The power of language: How rhetoric awareness can combat hiring bias and discrimination

I first realized the usefulness of literary theory to the issue of hiring discrimination when I came across an article about a permanent resident struggling to find employment in architecture, her field of expertise, in Canada.

The Conversation

The Oyster Problem review – the struggle to save Flaubert from himself

In historian Orlando Figes’ rather too formal first play, the passionate romantic’s friends try to persuade him to be a little more worldly

The Guardian - UK

In brief: The Wrath to Come; Briefly, A Delicious Life; This Much Is True – reviews

Sarah Churchwell’s cultural history reassesses Gone With the Wind, Nell Stevens’s first novel impresses and Miriam Margolyes’s memoir fascinates

The Guardian - UK

Briefly, a Delicious Life by Nell Stevens review – on holiday with Chopin and George Sand

A teenage ghost observes the erotic and creative bond between composer and author in Stevens’s playful debut novel

The Guardian - UK

Hugo, Flaubert: 19th century French writers' letters to be auctioned in Paris

Letters from great French writers of the 19th century such as Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, Stendhal, Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine, will be auctioned tomorrow, Thursday 9 June.

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