novelists

"Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant (1804-1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and feminist." —Wikipedia

"...people think it very natural and pardonable to trifle with what is most sacred when dealing with women: women do not count in the social or moral order. I solemnly vow—and this is the first glimmer of courage and ambition in my life!—that I shall raise woman from her abject position, both through my self and my writing, God will help me!...let female slavery also have its Spartacus. That shall I be, or perish in the attempt."

—George Sand in a letter to Frederic Girerd, 1837  (Winegarten, 161)


Nadar [photographer] was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820-1910), a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist. —(more) Wikipedia

"Felix Nadar" on Flickr Commons (Smithsonian)

thank you for making this wow..brilliant

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historic Heroines, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

I made a purse from this image:

I like it!

J'aime bien le félin au premier plan, il regarde l'objectif comme si on le dérangeait pendant sa sieste

Isn't this the guy who also wrote a lot of Civil War history material, including the LOOK magazine series that turned into a book: "If The South Had Won The Civil War" ?