![]() ![]() ![]() Her earlier novels were romantic later ones often expressed her serious concern with social reform. She wrote some 80 novels, which were widely popular in their day, supporting herself and her children chiefly by her writing. In 1831, after eight years of a marriage of convenience with Baron Dudevant, a country squire, she went with her two children to Paris, obtaining a divorce in 1836. After entering a convent in Paris, she returned to the countryside and led an unconventional life, donning the male clothes that became a mark of her rebellion. Born of an aristocratic father and a lower-class mother, she was reared by her austere paternal grandmother on a country estate in Berry. Other variant forms of her maiden name include Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin. ![]() of Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, baronne Dudevant ämäNdēn´ ôrôr´ lüsē´ düpăN, bärôn´ düdväN´, 1804–76, French novelist. ![]()
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