| Name | Les idees d'un maitre d'ecole [The Ideas of a Schoolmaster], Manuscript by George Sand |
| Dates | 1872 |
| Extent | 0.33 cubic foot |
| Historical Note | Aurore Dupin de Francueil (1804-1876) became one of France’s best known writers of the Nineteenth Century under the pseudonym of George Sand. The author of many novels, at least a dozen plays, and numerous short works including literary criticism, political texts, and essays, spent much of her life on her grandmother’s estate of Nohant in the province of Berry, an estate which she inherited upon her grandmother’s death in 1821. In 1822 Aurore Dupin married Casimir Dudevant and they were parents of a son and daughter before their separation in 1831. Sand published novels on a regular basis between 1831 and the mid 1860s. She died in her beloved Nohant and was buried on the estate. |
| Scope and Contents | Consists of the 1872 holograph manuscript in French, 38-pages bound in leather and of a typescript manuscript draft of an English translation completed in 1988. |
| Arrangement | None |
| Accession Number | M2014-14 |
| Provenance | The Sand manuscript was acquired by Dr. William Murray of Birmingham, Alabama, from a rare book dealer in New York in 1963. In 1981-82 Murray donated the item to UAB where it was housed at the Mervyn H. Sterne Library. In the fall of 2014 the manuscript was transferred from Sterne to the UAB Archives. The English translation of the Sand manuscript was completed in 1988 by Dr. John S. Coley, first chair of the UAB Division of Humanities and the first chair of the university's English department. Coley and UAB were planning to publish the Sand work in English for the first time; the translation was never published. |
| Copyright | The UAB Archives maintains its proprietary rights to all material in this collection. |
| Fnding Aid | Printed descriptive guide by Tim L. Pennycuff available in repository. |
| Access Points | Authors, French y 19th Century. Coley, John Smartt, d b. 1914. Sand, George, d 1804-1876. |
| Document Types | Manuscripts. Typescripts. |
| Location | Manuscript Stacks. |
| Related Series | None. |
| Physical Condition | Acid free folder, acid free box |
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