Indiana

Trapped in a loveless marriage to the elderly and sickly Colonel Delmare, French gentlewoman Indiana searches for love and passion, oblivious to the affections of the one man who truly cares about her.
Through Indiana, author George Sand explores the difficulties that arise from marriages born from social and economic expectations, and the impossible choice nineteenth century women faced between an unhappy married life or one of social condemnation.
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George Sand is the pen name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, a 19th century French novelist and memoirist. Sand is best known for her novels Indiana, Lélia, and Consuelo, and for her memoir A Winter in Majorca, in which she reflects on her time on the island with Chopin in 1838-39. A champion of the poor and working classes, Sand was an early socialist who published her own newspaper using a workers' co-operative and scorned gender conventions by wearing men's clothing and smoking tobacco in public. George Sand died in France in 1876.