Selected Letters, 1870

George Sand is the pen name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (1803–1876). One of the most popular and renowned novelists of the European Romantic movement, she was also a prolific playwright, memoirist, journalist, and literary critic. Several volumes of her private correspondence and journals were published posthumously. Sand is perhaps best known for her pastoral novels set in the rural Berry region of central France, where she spent much of her life.

Henry Harrisse (1829–1910) was a prominent lawyer and historian. Born in Paris, he studied and taught law and philosophy in the United States and acquired U.S. citizenship before returning to France, where he maintained a legal practice representing American clients. Harrisse published several books on cartography and the history of European explorers in the Americas.

Laura Nagle is a writer and translator from French, Spanish, and Irish. Her translations of work by the Bolivian feminist poet Adela Zamudio (1854–1928) recently appeared in The Los Angeles Review. Recipient of a 2020 Travel Fellowship from the American Literary Translators Association, she lives in Indianapolis. (updated 10/2021)