This book contain collection of 2 books1. The Devil’s Pool / translated from the French by Jane Minot Sedgwick and Ellery Sedgwick [1846/1901]2. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert LettersAbout the AuthorGeorge Sand, 1804-1876Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant was a French novelist and early feminist (prior to the invention of the word) who wrote under the pen name of George Sand.Born in Paris to a father of aristocratic lineage and a "common" mother, Sand was raised for much of her childhood by her grandmother at the family estate, Nohant, in the French region of Berry, a setting later used in many of her novels. In 1822, she married Baron Casimir Dudevant, and they had two children, Maurice (b. 1823) and Solange (b. 1828). In 1835, taking the children with her, she left her husband.Her first novel, Rose et Blanche [1831] was written in collaboration with Jules Sandeau, from whom she allegedly took her pen name, Sand.